Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has authored a secret memo purporting to provide legal cover for President Donald Trump to launch a never-ending war on an expansive list of drug cartels and suspected traffickers.

The opinion, which was produced by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, says the president can order deadly strikes against the cartels because they pose an “imminent threat” to Americans, sources told CNN.

Instead of treating alleged drug traffickers as suspected criminals with due process rights, the memo says the president can designate them as “enemy combatants” and have them summarily killed.

The list goes beyond the cartels that the administration has publicly designated as terrorist organizations and is being kept secret from lawmakers, who have repeatedly asked for a c

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