Dem says Boat Strike Video Shows Republicans' Narrative 'completely false'

Monday, December 08, 2025

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.

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Release the boat strike video.

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-- Rep. Ted Lieu (@reptedlieu.bsky.social) Dec 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Trump didn't have any problem releasing the Epstein files, either, but he's still keeping them under lock and key.
If it looks like a coverup, walks like a coverup, smells to high heaven like another hamfisted Trump coverup?
Yup, another hamfisted Trump coverup.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 06:30 AM | Reply

Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him."

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 06:58 AM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 3

Just a reminder that Drowsy Don and his BFF raped children.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-08 09:31 AM | Reply

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. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 03:21 PM | Reply

That would be "Ranger" Tom Cotton.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 03:26 PM | Reply

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.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 03:55 PM | Reply

Congress should also limit Hegseth's expensive PSD detachment. US Army CID agents are exhausted protecting all of his private properties and they are not investigating felony crimes committed within the ranks of the US Army.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-08 04:18 PM | Reply

The Dems gave the Rs a gift wrapped political landscape. Trump took that to mean a complete mandate, and is taking legitimate concerns like illegal immigration and drug trade and fumbling it epically. The political pendulum is going to swing back quickly.

#8 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-12-08 05:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

... 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. ...

The Trump admin seems to be claiming the release of that second video would expose intelligence sources and methods.

But if that is so, then why has the Trump admin release so many other videos of the boat strikes?

Would not those other videos also expose sources and methods?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 08:59 PM | Reply

Yawn.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-09 01:06 AM | Reply

The EPSTEIN COVERUP and now BOATGATE.

Nixon was a smart person and even he couldn't manage one bigtime coverup.

This hamfisted crew, captained by Old Senescent? That sound? The wheels. Starting to come off.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-09 05:02 AM | Reply

DOC

The EPSTEIN COVERUP and now BOATGATE."

That's two "Death Knell" coverups in a row for the Trump Administration."

He's going to fight like a man possessed by the Devil himself to keep those secrets.

Interesting how both of those coverup involve the word . . . Murder

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-12-09 07:17 AM | Reply

A Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron aircrew disables a non-compliant go-fast vessel during counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific on Dec. 2, 2025. This interdiction removed more than 20,000 pounds of narcotics, the largest Coast Guard single at-sea seizure in over 18 years. (U.S. Coast Guard video)

www.dvidshub.net

That's how you do it.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-09 11:29 AM | Reply

That's how you do it.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-09 11:29 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Oh wait, I thought these boats were simply fishing boats??? This one looks just like the ones that got blown up. Issue with this take down is Dems will get the smugglers into a liberal court, they will be released and do it again.

#14 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-09 01:17 PM | Reply

Oh wait, I thought these boats were simply fishing boats???

You did? Where is the evidence do you have that they were drug smugglers OR fishing boats?

You have neither. You blew it up.

You see if they were not all blown up you could have evidence of their crimes.

But you don't. Just speculation and more magafied lies.

The Coast Guard preserved the evidence of a crime. So there was no question.

Because that is how you do it.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-09 01:27 PM | Reply

"dems say"

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

same lying lower intestine stuck poop
and "dems say"...russia / fine people
"J6 bomber is a white male...BWAAAAAAAAAA

those dems say ??

you people are stupid/

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-09 01:50 PM | Reply