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It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive. The mission had been planned and mapped out for months, worked and reworked at the behest of the Commander-in-Chief. No American casualties would be tolerated. Special Forces had been circling and at the ready for weeks. The helicopters were easy targets, so a vital part of the mission was to eliminate Nicolás Maduro’s ground- to-air response beforehand and claim total air superiority. There must have been any number of worries that such a risky mission could go wrong, yet mere hours before it started, Marco Rubio was calmly sitting at

Trump’s use of the word ‘Shylock’ allows his opponents to play the ‘he’s anti-Semitic’ card, when he clearly isn’t

Plus: Biden doles out more student loan forgiveness

For the FBI and other agencies, going too far has been worth it in the past

Unlike Biden and Pence, the key seems to be the egregiousness of his actions coupled with his attempt to cover them up

The risks of non-response are that Trump defines him before he defines himself

The national security state has far more secrets than it can reasonably be expected to protect

The president has apparently been squirreling away classified material for years

Democrats rapidly and wrongly assume the Monterey Park atrocity was racially motivated. The shooter and victims were all Asian