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. "They ought to release the video," Smith said. "If they release the video, then everything that the Republicans are saying will clearly be portrayed to be completely false. And people will get a look at it, and they will see. The boat was adrift. It was going where the current was going to take it, and these two were trying to figure out how to survive."
Trump has said the administration would have "no problem" releasing the video of the strike in question, but Hegseth was noncommittal when asked Saturday.
"Whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about it so we're reviewing that right now.," Hegseth said at the Reagan National Defense Forum. "I'm way more interested in protecting that than anything else. So, we're viewing the process, and we'll see."
Smith argued the strike video lawmakers were shown is "no different" than the strike videos the administration has already publicly released.
"It seems pretty clear they don't want to release this video because they don't want people to see it, because it's very, very difficult to justify," he said.
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