High Republican lawmakers have signaled they’re ending their inquiries right into a controversial U.S. army strike on an alleged drug smuggling vessel within the waters off Venezuela.
Sen. Roger Wicker (Mississippi), Republican chair of the Senate Armed Providers Committee, mentioned in an announcement Thursday that he had seen “no proof of battle crimes” within the Sept. 2 operation that killed two survivors of an preliminary U.S. assault on their boat. He expressed confidence that the Trump administration’s army marketing campaign round Latin America, accountable thus far for the deaths of almost 100 folks, has been performed “primarily based on sound authorized recommendation.”
