Bipartisan lawmakers want legal answers on alleged drug boat strikes

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Bipartisan lawmakers want legal answers on alleged drug boat strikes

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is demanding more answers from President Trump’s administration about the ongoing U.S. military strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific.

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The four lawmakers, Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio), all members of the House Armed Services Committee, are asking the administration to clarify the legal basis for the ongoing strikes. They also want to know if the White House plans to ask Congress for authorization, if the people targeted in the attacks — which started in early September — posed a threat to the United States, and what process officials are re