Key members of Congress have seen with their own eyes how the U.S. military deliberately killed two men who survived a missile attack on their small boat.

What the video showed was either a war crime or simple murder. Whether that got through to the politicians depended largely on whether they were Democrats or Republicans.

America is supposed to be better than that.

From interviews with lawmakers who were in the secret briefing, it appears Republicans are once again forming a circle of denial around President Donald Trump and his morbidly unfit defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said the attack was “righteous” and “highly lawful and lethal.”

‘Clearly illegal’

“The video we saw today showed two shipwrecked individuals who had n

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