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US could be forced to release justification for boat strikes on drug traffickers

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The United States could be forced to release legal justification for boat strikes on drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

The Trump administration has said the legal justification cannot be released due to national security implications and has not yet told the American public what the legal rationale is for conducting the boat strikes on what they say are drug traffickers headed to the U.S.

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