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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

What the U.S. loses when our allies stop sharing intelligence

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence sharing between the U.S. and its allies has long been a powerful national security tool. But recently, some allies have stopped sharing key intelligence with the United States. What does that mean for U.S. national security?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.1

This is on point.

0:24.7

I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

0:26.3

Since September 2nd, the United States military has launched 21 strikes on alleged drug trafficking

0:32.3

boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

0:35.6

Here's President Trump.

0:37.0

The way you look at it is every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American lives.

0:42.7

So every time you see a boat and you feel badly, you say, wow, that's rough.

0:47.0

It is rough.

0:47.7

But if you lose three people and save 25,000 people, these are people that are killing our population.

0:54.6

Thus far, the U.S. military has killed 83 people in the boat strikes.

0:59.6

Many international law and human rights experts have questioned the legality of these strikes

1:04.8

and whether the boats were even carrying narcotics.

1:08.2

President Trump was asked by reporters on October 15th how the U.S. could confirm

1:13.1

that the people on the boats were, in fact, narco-traffickers.

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