The United Kingdom doesn't want to share information with us when it comes to drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean.
According to CNN, sources familiar with the matter say the UK "does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Our closest ally doesn't want to share intel with us because they think bombing drug-traffickers is illegal.
In case you didn't know:
For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
The intelligence was typically sent to Joint Interagency Task Force South, a task force stationed in Florida that includes representatives from a number of partner nations and works to reduce the illicit drug trade.
But now that our War Department is nuking those boats instead of offering drug-traffickers due process, well, the UK is not interested in sharing that information with us anymore. They don't want to be complicit in something they consider to be against international law.
Obviously, the US War Department feels differently.
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