new york times" reporter seth freed wessler wrote the story in partnership with the investigative fund at the nation institute, and he joins me now from boston. so, first, seth, i wanted you to just describe to us what exactly the coast guard is doing. and you also feature the story of a gentleman named johnny. you can tell us a little bit about what he experienced? >> well, the u.s. coast guard has been deployed deep into the pacific ocean, sometimes as many as 3,000 miles away from the nearest u.s. port, to pick up shipments of cocaine moved between south america-- colombia and ecuador-- and central america. and they're picking up suspected smugglers aboard small speed boats in the ocean. and i write about a number of men who were detained by the coast guard aboard u.s. ships in international waters and held there for weeks or months at a time in a kind of detention that's expanding rapidly in the sort of maritime war on drugs. >> thompson: talk a little bit more about the conditions that these men were held in. >> they describe condition where's they were-- they were-- they were sha

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