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Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

Members of Congress are growing concerned over a lack of information from the Trump administration about the intelligence and strategy underlying its strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, six sources told NBC News.

Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have left briefings about the strikes frustrated with the lack of information, said these people: five congressional sources and an additional source with knowledge of the matter. Some have asked for unedited video of the strikes, reflecting the kind of basic information they seek, but the administration has so far refused to provide it.

At a briefing a few weeks ago, Republican lawmakers were clearly upset with the answers they received, one of the congressional sources said.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (4 children)

IDK how Trump ever expects to get the peace prize by blowing up Colombian fishing boats. A real Peace Prize winning president knows to be rational and humane by bombing Yemeni weddings instead.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He doesn’t give a flying fuck if it’s real or not, he’s a dictator and dictators want to bend reality to their will and be praised for everything whether they actually did anything or not.

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

He did say his opinion is the only one that matters yesterday.

He's the CEO of the United States, and the shareholders no longer have the ability to oust him

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He is the obvious outcome of 'running the country like a business' which I got sick of hearing people say they wanted a couple decades ago.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The problem in running a country as a business is that they forget that the real "shareholders" aren't the 1%. It's the other 99%. Because that 1% would starve if it wasn't for the other 99%.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The actual Noble Prize winner immediately went on Twitter, The Everything App, and begged Trump to bomb Venezuela harder. So he was clearly in the running.

Besides, Trump dutifully picked up the Biden genocide engine and cranked it as hard as any President since McKinley. He's at least as qualified as anyone in the last ten years.

I suspect the only reason the Swedish Neoliberal Awards Committee didn't hand Trump the prize this year is because he'd lose the incentive to do war crimes for the next three years.

Maybe if he finally drops an A-bomb on Nicaragua or starts a shooting war with China, we can talk.

I suspect the only reason the Swedish Neoliberal Awards Committee didn't hand Trump the prize this year is

that it's presented in Oslo by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

But yeah, it's not like giving one to Kissinger for his war crimes and another to Obama for an election campaign has established their selection process as based on peace..

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago

Hey now, you're forgetting about peacefully carpet bombing Cambodian villages or peacefully encouraging Marco Rubio to bomb your own country's fishing boats.

There's a lot of people you can bomb to win a Nobel peace prize.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

He only cares about the prize because Obama has it and he doesn’t and he doesn’t care about the peace at all, so he’ll probably just keep pressing for it and disregarding the stuff he should be doing to get it, like he does with everything else. Then, some of his sycophants will join in and try to manifest it for him.