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"Since September 2025, the campaign has carried out 70 known strikes, killing more than 230 people in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, but it has become overshadowed by President Trump’s war in Iran."
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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes (Gift Article)
The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
![D. Mr. Cole Breaks.
The record of Mr. Cole's last hour of resistance is difficult to read. He asked for
a break "just to process all of this." (Tr. at 86.) Alone in the interrogation room,
shivering while wrapped in the blanket, he chanted to himself: "I didn't, I didn't, I
didn't, I didn't.... [E]ven a small chance.... Even a small, tiny chance. Smallest,
tiniest chances.... Do whatever you can to clear your name. You can get out of this.
(Tr. at 86-87.) This was "stimming"-the self-regulating repetition characteristic of
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an autistic person in acute physical and emotional distress? captured on the
government's own recording. When the agents returned, Mr. Cole reported "a giant pain in my stomach." The response: "I know. Are you ready? Are you ready to
explain?" (Tr. at 87.)
Minutes later, the agents asked whether he wanted the interrogation to end.
His answer revealed a mind that had stopped functioning: "I don't know what to do
anymore. I just-everything is just, everything is just blank. Being told, being told all of this, it's just a little too much to process. I'm sorry." (Tr. at 91.) Rather than honor that answer, the agents pressed on. They cued a surveillance video and asked Mr. Cole to identify the man in it. He denied any familiarity with what he saw—
twice. "Do you recognize that person?" "No.")Have you watched this video before?"
"No." (Tr. at 92.) Only then did the agents remind him what a denial would cost:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreidmgfdbknh2yclq6olo34i5jlia2wzqa6nbvfml6mgbzmjtkp6ota)
