Himes after seeing boat strike video: ‘We killed two people who were in deep distress’

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that he is “deeply” troubled by the Pentagon’s double-tap strikes on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean, saying it’s clear that U.S. forces targeted survivors who posed no threat to American security. Himes was among the handful of lawmakers who were…