LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Responding to the "serious international problem" of maritime drug smuggling, 46 U.S.C. § 70501, Congress enacted the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA") in 1980. Congress intended the MDLEA to address this "specific threat to the security and societal well-being of the United States," id., by providing for the enforcement of our drug laws outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, id. § 70503(b)...
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