Fake news sweetheart, “according to officials briefed on the matter”.U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
But the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”
On top of the extralegal killing of accused drug smugglers in the Caribbean, the method for killing them was, in at least one instance, also a war crime. I can't help wondering if there is a committee tasked with coming up with ways to violate widely recognized law. If there is, they are doing a heck of a job.

