WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee are urging the Trump administration to publicly release a written opinion outlining its legal justification for strikes against vessels it says are smuggling drugs. The strikes have killed dozens of people in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific over the last three months.

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Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee are urging the Trump administration to publicly release a written opinion outlining its legal justification for strikes against vessels it says are smuggling drugs

One of the Democratic senators leading the letter, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, noted in a post on X on Monday that he read the memo last week and was “disappointed & dissatisfied with the supposed legal justificat

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