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by fweimer 239 days ago
> There is no Obama or Biden counterpart to Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Venezuelan coast.

Sadly, this isn't really true. The Obama administration had their Terror Tuesdays:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120530104348/https://www.nytim...

The program was only mildly controversial at thetime. The killing not so much—it was more about the alleged presence of a Democratic campaign strategist in those coordination meetings.

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That was very bad, but it was plausibly authorized by Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...).

There is no comparable authorization here. There is, to my knowledge, no allegation that these Venezuelans had anything to do with Al Qaida or the Sept. 11 attacks.