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Did they say where home is?

Because they don’t what us to find out they were fishermen. I hope press tracks them down.

Nobody will ever accuse this administration of being coherent.

This seems at least a little decent, assuming we get past the first offense of attacking anyone in international waters at all. Truly evil move would be to kill them and then there's no story that reaches our eyes at all. I wonder what the internal conversation went like

They created such an "inconvenience" for the DOJ and DOD simply by surviving the attack. 😅

They don't want those people telling the truth about what happened to them. I seriously doubt they were drug smugglers. You can't believe anything this regime says

If they went to court everyone would find out they’re fishermen

So they’re sending them to CECOT?

The AI technology is amazing nowadays!

I think he said submersible not submarine. My fault.

*above, not about

Holy shit. This is almost too hard to believe. Blow up their boat under highly questionable if not non-existent authorities, then release them? This story needs to have legs. Something is way out of whack here.

If they’re not blown to pieces they can talk. Tell us they’re fishermen. We need to DEMAND to hear from the 2 survivors. NOW!

I'm sorry...they try to kill them then pay for repatriation?

It’s almost as if they had no legal authority in the first place. Who could have known?

Kind of like ICE,smashing people's cars and homes, and then sending them home because they got the wrong people.

When 77 million Americans decide they want to vote for a moronic authoritarian who flouts the rule of law and common sense, this is the kind of stuff that you get.

so weird

Because they ARE NOT narco-trafficers. However, the convicted felon Donald Trump IS A PEDOPHILE. #TRUMP_IS_A_PEDOPHILE

Of course they won’t prosecute them or hold them in military detention where they would have access to lawyers and would reveal that the Trump Admin is committing murder for political gain.

Word

Someone doesn’t want anyone to be here to talk

Did they do this so that they keep their mouths shut? How much did we pay them?

This is bizarre. We know these guys were not drug smugglers; otherwise, they would be paraded before the media as proof this operation is justified. The fact that Trump is not framing them or disappearing them is pretty incredible. The media needs to find and interview them immediately.

I'd guarantee they got to go home on the condition that they dont talk

Glad they got out of here alive

Hmmmm

Guess Venezuela has paramilitary traffickers from other countries? 😀 My guess is fishermen. We are at war with South American fishermen!

What the actual $%&@ is happening?

Wtaf

they really don't want this to come up in a courtroom, do they

Well they apparently did succeed in murdering a few of them so.

TFG

NOT DRUG RUNNERS

Because they know it wasn’t a drug boat . Shutting them up.

He doesn't know what repatriate means

This is ridiculous. Even the 4-Star in command of (I think) SOCOM has resigned - which is very telling. These people are victims of extra-judicial MURDER. What does Venezuela have that donnie wants?

Seems, uh, fishy.

Guess I’m confusing it with this one. bsky.app/profile/anth...

Fair point. The more I read into it after posting the more I realized how cool the submersible thing is, since the late 90’s. Those guys were making money transporting valuable cargo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-s....

Afraid they will talk

Confessions can save a lot of time.

Tbf holding a military tribunal for a couple of fishermen would be odd...

They don't want a trial, I wonder why.

Don't you hate it when weak-on-crime Democrats let drug dealers walk so they can go back on the streets and do more crimes...oh, wait...

I think we are talking about quite different things. My assumption was that was not the kind of working ship that is partly submerged to do things like float another piece of equipment, but crude vessels that travel mostly submerged to elude detection. Naturally, the gov't account is not reliable.

Do hobbyists take those on the high seas? This is the category I assume the craft is alleged to belong to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-s... My only contention is that fishermen do not use semi-submersibles.

Very possible the Navy determined the survivors were fishermen being forced to pilot the boat by smugglers. The smugglers frequently force poor fishermen with experience on the sea to crew their smuggling craft. That's one of the many reasons extrajudicial murder of everyone on board is abhorrent.

Could just be that without the boat and its contents, they have nothing other than "these guys were on the high seas looking sneaky" and even this administration can't find a lawyer willing to make a Federal case out of it.

"It's submersed, isn't it?"

True. That still does not excuse our actions.

thus avoiding open court proceeding where the lack of evidence would become apparent. #Trump

STRANGE.

I imagine we'll find out more

Venezuelan drug smugglers are the target, not Columbian and Ecuadorian fishermen coincidentally on the same boat.

Somewhere, in a drunken rage, judge Jeanine Piro is screaming "Just shoot'em again??" >>>

Holding them would allow legal action, which would be a problem since they have no legal basis to hold (or kill) them.

“Just don’t go to the news and tell them the truth about what happened, what you were doing, or why you were there, and you can go home. Here’s some fish for your trouble. Don’t say nothin’, won’t be nothin’. Now, scram!”

So as we all knew, the Trump regime actually DID murder 27 innocent fishermen. Bet this doesn’t stop them from murdering more.

They know they couldn’t prove s*** in court.

They would never let them go if they were actually drug dealers.

I suppose it goes without saying that "assessed to be..." turned out to be false if this is any indication.

How long before they hit a tourist boat....not that those lives are worth any more but can you imagine trying to explain that!

Well, the NYT certainly is. They can't spell Fascism. Might as well read the NY Post 😆🤪...not

Strikes me this is a *very* convenient way of losing’ them and solving the insoluble problem of blowing their colleagues to bits and having to justify it.

Yeah, to Ecuador & Colombia…so they are not Venezuelano drug cartel?

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They don’t have enough gas on board to get to the US. Case closed.

So it's official. Not even a pretense of terrorism or defense or even criminality. Just sport- shooting Venezuelan fishing boats for content. Everyone involved in this from top to bottom must be tried and punished.

There is no more basis for capturing them then there is for committing murder on the high seas.

I bet Hegseth forced an admiral to resign over ordering a rescue. Can you imagine US military being ordered to murder survivors in the water? I can.

Total madness. Either you are murdered or set free. Nothing in between.