“Deeply disturbing” and “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen”—that’s how top Democratic lawmakers have described classified video they recently watched of a series of strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September. Now, they’re pushing the Trump Administration to declassify the footage for the public to assess if the attack was appropriate.
“I think it's really important that this video be made public,” Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who was among the select lawmakers who watched the video in a closed-door briefing last Thursday, told CBS News on Sunday . Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, pointed out that descriptions and interpretations of what lawmakers saw split along party lines, adding: “This is an instance in which I think the Ame

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