So the boat was probably headed to Trinidad, or another Caribbean country. Then it was supposedly heading straight to the United States. Well, maybe not straight. But the drugs were coming here eventually. The latest theory is that the boat was going to link up with another ship, and head toward Suriname. The story coming out of the Pentagon keeps changing.

That's assuming there was a drug boat at all! After The Washington Post first reported that the U.S. military knocked a boat leaving Venezuela--allegedly carrying drugs--out of commission, then fired on it again as survivors clung to its wreckage, the defense secretary cited The Post's coverage as "fabricated, inflammatory and derogatory reporting." At first, a White House spokesman said the stories contained "NO FACTS," and the presid

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