For three days in early December, dozens of San Francisco sheriff’s deputies crisscrossed the city, hunting a group of foreign military fugitives by following any breadcrumbs they had left behind.
It was dubbed Exercise Sourdough. Sadly, no bread was broken in the mock operation.
A month before U.S. military forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — and two months after San Francisco was nearly inundated by federal immigration officials — the city was the staging ground for the Department of Defense’s largest urban evasion operation (opens in new tab)…