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Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker (www.rawstory.com)
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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon's admission to explain why the Trump administration "could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden."

Call me old fashioned, but I'm of the opinion that if you don't have the evidence to try someone, you definitely don't have the evidence to execute them.

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

This is the logical conclusion of the neoliberal principle of expediency. It was most obvious when Trump said "it would be too expensive and take too long to give these people a trial" before he deported them. Legally that doesn't mean you can deport people without a trial if it would take longer than you would like, but I might just be old fashioned too.

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