Trump's White House was alarmed by its own agency's military strikes proposal: report
As Donald Trump’s second-term administration was initially settling in, officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) immediately began proposing military strikes in Mexico to take out cartel operations, which both the White House and the Pentagon balked at, according to news reports.
According to an exclusive report from the Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe and Ellen Nakashima, the proposal for military action was greeted with alarm at the White House out of fears it was jumping the gun. After Trump designated numerous Latin American cartels and criminal gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, DEA officials proposed using the military to help with their mission.
The Post is reporting, “The pushback on DEA’s advocacy, which has not been reported previously, illustrates the divisions that have arisen as the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture toward combating what it says is a major adversary poisoning American citizens.”...