US EditionLawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump’s military strikes on boats
Congressional committees are investigating U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats after reports of a follow-up strike killing survivors, with over 80 deaths in recent months.
- On Friday, congressional leaders announced oversight hearings, with Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Rep. Jared Golden supporting investigations into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's alleged actions.
- Last week, The Washington Post reported that the early-September attack marked the first of more than 20 maritime strikes linked to Venezuela, killing more than 80 people in three months.
- Legal authorities note the Defense Department's Law of War Manual says orders to fire on shipwrecked survivors are 'clearly illegal', and legal experts warned the boat strikes may be unlawful.
- Political reactions included Sen. Ed Markey calling Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'a war criminal' and the White House defending the strike Monday as 'in accordance with the law of armed conflict', Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
- Sen. Angus King warned Monday that if a second strike targeted survivors, it would be 'a stone-cold war crime' and 'murder', while Republican and Democratic Armed Services committee leaders promised bipartisan oversight and investigations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Get to bottom of allegation about Hegseth
Congress is mostly a media circus these days, so credit the members who take their duties seriously. Lawmakers are doing a public service by trying to get to the truth on whether the Trump administration killed defenseless survivors of a…
Omaha World-Herald
Shooting the wounded on drug boats?
Congress is mostly a media circus these days, so credit the members who take their duties seriously. Lawmakers are doing a public service by trying to get to the truth on whether the Trump administration killed defenseless survivors of a…
3 key questions about the US boat strikes that killed survivors
Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a top military commander are facing serious questions about why the U.S. on Sept. 2 killed survivors of a military strike against a suspected drug boat, when the laws of war say survivors on the battlefield should be rescued. The White House acknowledges that …
Ohio’s Mike Turner wants answers from the Trump administration on the U.S. bombing of drug boats: Today in Ohio
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The White House confirms the targeted killing of two survivors of a US attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean – but the chain of command remains questionable
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