Quill Lawrence
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Trump has previously threatened to invoke the act when legal challenges mounted against his decision
to deploy National Guard troops across the country last year.
Unlike the National Guard deployments, the Insurrection Act would allow armed forces to act as law enforcement, even allowing arrests.
It was last used in 1992 during the Los Angeles riots.
The Trump administration says it is at war with drug cartels, and it's therefore legal for the military to carry out deadly strikes on small boats on suspicion that they're smuggling drugs.
But the first of those strikes, last September 2nd, was already controversial because it included a second round of strikes to kill survivors clinging to their capsized boat.
Killing shipwrecked enemies is a textbook violation of U.S.
military code and the laws of war.
Now, a government official not authorized to speak publicly confirms to NPR that the plane in that strike was painted not to look military, another potential war crime called perfidy.
According to that official, the plane is part of a highly classified Pentagon program predating the Trump administration.
The Trump administration says it is at war with drug cartels, and it's therefore illegal for the military to carry out deadly strikes on small boats on suspicion that they're smuggling drugs.
But the first of those strikes, last September 2nd, was already controversial because it included a second round of strikes to kill survivors clinging to their capsized boat.
Killing shipwrecked enemies is a textbook violation of U.S.
military code and the laws of war.
Now, a government official not authorized to speak publicly confirms to NPR that the plane in that strike was painted not to look military, another potential war crime called perfidy.
According to that official, the plane is part of a highly classified Pentagon program predating the Trump administration.
Before the raid that removed the Venezuelan president, a U.S.