Separated Children Forced to Recite Pledge of Allegiance ‘Out of Respect’

"While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them."

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Feds ran a money-laundering operation for over a year in $20M darknet sweep

"The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions."

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Why Doesn’t Outrage At U.S. Imprisoning Children Extend To U.S. Killing Children?

While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."

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Mr. Trump goes to war

"The OLC argues that the presidential order, issued without authorization by or consultation with Congress, was nevertheless lawful because the president 'had reasonably determined that the use of force would be in the national interest and that the anticipated hostilities would not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.'"

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