The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee [Adam Smith] said Sunday that surveillance video of U.S. military strikes targeting an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2 would contradict how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other Republicans have described it.
Release the boat strike video.
-- Rep. Ted Lieu (@reptedlieu.bsky.social) Dec 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Sen. Cotton says he has no objection to releasing video of strike that killed two survivors
www.pbs.org
... A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows "nothing remarkable," the Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday, and he would not oppose its public release if the Pentagon were to declassify it.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, who backs President Donald Trump's campaign against suspected drug smugglers, is partially aligning himself with Trump and top Democrats in favor of releasing the video of the Sept. 2 attack. ...
Congress will vote on limiting Hegseth's travel budget unless he releases unedited video of boat strikes
There is bipartisan support to release the full video of the controversial strikes that day.
www.wbaltv.com
Tucked into Congress' massive defense policy bill is a provision that would limit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless he provides the House and Senate Armed Services committees with unedited video of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean.
The mandate in the must-pass piece of legislation " known as the National Defense Authorization Act " would withhold a quarter of the budget unless the Pentagon provides lawmakers "video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command."
It comes as a Sept. 2 "double-tap" strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has come under intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
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