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Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in a letter to the White House that the military has "exceeded" the parameters of President Donald Trump's orders in striking alleged drug-smuggling vessels ...

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"I'm not looking to kill people." So, about those boat strikes ...

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... Briefings and notifications provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee, of which Kaine is a senior Democrat, include information on the targets, he said. Kaine said the military had struck and killed people who did not fit the order's criteria.

"You selected numerous organizations for targeting," Kaine wrote, addressing Trump. "That target list is classified so I cannot reveal it."

"Importantly, the classification of the list means that those you have asked the Department of Defense to target are entirely unaware that they are marked for execution," he said. ...

Kaine claims that his review of the classified materials provided to Congress, which included a legal memorandum from the Department of Justice, "makes clear that the United States is engaged in violent and fatal attacks against people far beyond those whom the [legal] opinion claimed could be lawfully targeted." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-03 04:14 PM | Reply

Sen Kaine says US boat strikes likely killed innocent people

No "likely" about it.

They were all innocent people.

No court found them guilty.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-03 04:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

No ----. Pickled Pete needs to swing.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-03 09:27 PM | Reply

Last I checked presumption of innocence was still a fundamental principal of the US justice system. Trump, Hegseth and those just following orders are murderers.

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-08-04 02:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Likely?

If Kaine is safe, might be time to write in my anarchist son again.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-04 03:43 PM | Reply

We're balls deep in Bill of Attainder territory, with this administration.

Declaring people criminals with no trial -- from undocumented immigrants to "drug" boats.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-04 04:10 PM | Reply

Murder is murder, and the killing of criminal suspects in an extrajudicial fashion is murder in every jurisdiction in America.
And then, of course, were the murders of the 80 Iranian leaders told to gather to create a new agreement, and then they were killed in the single stupidest military action of my lifetime, and I am a Vietnam Veteran.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-05 06:35 AM | Reply

The US did this all the time in Syria and Afghanistan. In Syria, ISIS took over oil fields which the organization then shipped to Turkey for sale. The people weren't the target, the trucks were. Because they were being used for a military purpose-the funding of ISIS, that made them valid military targets. And completely legal.

In Afghanistan, the US bombed narcotics production facilities which were used to fund Taliban operations. The people operating the facilities were civilians.

Again, valid military targets, and legal IAW with international humanitarian law.

"No court found them guilty."

I know when I was doing the thing, every target was reviewed by multiple JAG's, intelligence professionals, Ops professionals, and others, before finally being blessed off on by a senior general. And again, it's not the people. It's the boat. The boat is the target.

#8 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-05 10:27 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

And again, it's not the people. It's the boat. The boat is the target.

#8 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Meaningless.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-05 10:38 AM | Reply

#8

When you were doing the thing... that line of Command was much more legit than the Trump First loyalists that now hold sway.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-08-05 10:40 AM | Reply

"And completely legal."

lol according to whom?

"legal IAW with international humanitarian law"

Americans be so gullible.

The U.S. has not ratified the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.

The U.S. signed but did not ratify Protocol II

The U.S. rejects the jurisdiction of the ICC over American service members and officials, maintaining that accountability must be handled through domestic military justice systems.

The United States recognizes international human rights law "selectively".

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-05 11:02 AM | Reply

Just more white murder.

#12 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-05 12:17 PM | Reply

More white violence

#13 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-05 12:18 PM | Reply

#12 and 13

WMD = Weapons of Mass Destruction = White Man's Disease

Not too many People of Color are destructive arsonists or blood-lusting serial killers.

Dummkopf Trumpf launched the 77th US airstrike against the Somalis the other day, on top of these Caribbean Sea slaughters.

Add that sequence killer's POTUS portrait to the montage below.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-05 12:40 PM | Reply

In Afghanistan, the US bombed narcotics production facilities which were used to fund Taliban operations. The people operating the facilities were civilians.
Again, valid military targets, and legal IAW with international humanitarian law.
#8 | Posted by madbomber

Good to know that Wall Street is a valid military target.
So was the World Trade Center, as a matter of fact.
People working at those places fund United States government operations.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-05 03:14 PM | Reply

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