""Hopefully, members of Congress will take this opportunity to reexamine the entire boat bombing scheme as a whole,""
""The White House has been using military force at sea without congressional authorization and in defiance of the War Powers Resolution. More lawmakers should join the bipartisan pushback against this unauthorized killing spree as well as a potential unauthorized war with Venezuela.""
""You don't have to have served in the military to understand that that was a violation of ethical, moral and legal code,""
""murder on the high seas.""
Allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on survivors of a bombed "drug boat" in September have intensified scrutiny of the entire maritime campaign. A former counterterrorism legal advisor asserts the White House has employed military force at sea without congressional authorization and in defiance of the War Powers Resolution, warning of an unauthorized killing spree and a potential unauthorized war with Venezuela. Top Republicans on armed services committees have launched investigations and publicly questioned Hegseth. Legal experts say killing survivors would violate international human rights law if an armed conflict exists with cartels; otherwise it would breach the U.S. Code of Military Justice as premeditated "murder on the high seas." Senior military leaders have been summoned to brief senators on the strikes and authorities.
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