Sen. Elissa Slotkin said, Friday morning on MS-NOW’s “Morning Joe,” that the Trump administration will not share the list of drug cartels that the military has been authorized to target.

SEN. ELISSA SLOTKIN: You know, I think the thing that many of us have been asking a lot of questions on is, look – I think if you came to the Armed Services Committee and said, We want to have a real conversation about stepping up creative action against traffickers, drug traffickers, there’s a lot of us who have said openly, I’m ready to have that conversation. There’s plenty of times where we haven’t done enough, over years and years and years, against these drug traffickers. But what’s going on now is we have a secret list of organizations that we’re now in armed conflict with. We can’t get access to that list. Who are we fighting? And then the legal justification for the whole operation is a classified document that even the operators can’t see. So just as someone who was involved in operations against al-Qaeda and ISIS, and helping to target those organizations, there’s a standard of just-again-showing your math. This is how we came to this list. That’s just not being met. So again, I don’t think the principles of the operations – a lot of us would be open to those. It’s the way they’ve gone about it that’s completely ham-handed.

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