Democrats urge Pentagon to release video of strike on alleged drug boat

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sun 7 Dec 2025 15.08 EST
Last modified on Sun 7 Dec 2025 15.09 EST


US Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing to escalate pressure on the Pentagon amid accusations the attack was unlawful.

Eleven people died in the 2 September attack, including two men killed in a follow-up strike as they reportedly clung to wreckage for an hour. That killing has been met with intense scrutiny and accusations of war crimes after the Washington Post reported defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill them all”. Adm Frank Bradley of the US navy, who oversaw the attack, told lawmakers on Thursday there was no such order – and the Pentagon has defended the legality of the attack.

Experts have said the defense is legally shaky.

“If the Pentagon and our defense secretary are so proud of what they’re doing, let the American people see that video,” Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, said during an interview on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “Let the American people see two people standing on a capsized boat, or sitting on a capsized boat, and deliberately killed and decide for themselves whether they’re proud of what the country is doing. I can’t imagine people would be proud of that.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/07/democrats-trump-caribbean-drug-boat-strike-video

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Release the video

[mikelewis]

2. It's doubtful they will as it's being considered as a possible war crime...

Once someone said war crime, regardless if they own it or not... they will keep it classified.

What I wonder is... is there another boat?

Tom Cotton said there were 4 strikes... not 2... maybe there were two boats. If so... that may make this even worse.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Okay

I do want them punished for this, though I realize that's not likely.

[thought crime]

4. Tom Cotton was obfuscating at high speed.

Faster than a speed boat. With a bunch of Gaslighting thrown in along with some outright lies. The Usual.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos

Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.

Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos. The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.

Congressional leaders released their final draft of the defense bill Sunday, which is expected to be approved — without changes — by the House later this week and then the Senate.

The provision appeared as lawmakers look into a controversial follow-up strike on Sept. 2 that killed two survivors of an initial attack, an action some experts warn amounts to a war crime.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/congress-withhold-pentagon-travel-funds-182010276.html

Just a quarter?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Go post that as a LBN OP!