Murkowski, who has not seen the video, ‘concerned’ over reasons behind action
ANCHORAGE , Alaska - Sen. Dan Sullivan , R- Alaska , said Wednesday he’s assured the actions of the U.S. were legal after viewing the video of scrutinized ‘double-tap’ boat strike. “I support them doing it, but they have to get it right,” Sullivan said Wednesday.
“I think so far they’re getting it right.”reported late last month that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” on an alleged drug boat in September. With two people holding onto the wreckage of the ship following a first strike, the Post report describes, a special operations commander ordered a second strike to comply with the instructions. The White House has confirmed the follow-up attack. Several lawmakers have claimed Hegseth may have committed a war crime. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, called him “a war criminal,”Sullivan said he saw the video as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Wednesday morning. In that viewing, he said the Navy Admiral who ordered the strike, Frank Bradley, walked through the decision, including whether the people stranded in the water were “shipwreck survivor,” a description at the crux of the war crime allegations.says “member of the armed forces who is wounded, sick or shipwrecked,” are hors de combat, or out of combat, and are prevented from being targeted. “I analyzed this closely,” Sullivan said, when asked if he thought those in the water were shipwrecked. “I pressed the Admiral who made the call in a classified hearing today. And I was satisfied with his answer.” At the same time, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act Wednesday, a $900 billion piece of legislation, 77-22. That bill blocks parts of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the pentagon releases the scrutinized video.“I’m going to leave that decision up to the Pentagon if they think making these public somehow undermines sources and methods of intel collection,” Sullivan said. ”I don’t want that to happen, but I do think every member of Congress should see it in a classified setting, and that’s been my position.”telling reporters in Washington D.C. “What has concerned me about the boat strikes in the Caribbean have been that the mission has been perhaps not as clearly defined by the administration,” Murkowski previously said in a media availability weeks ago. “This senator doesn’t have sufficient information,” she added. Unlike her Alaska colleague, Murkowski sits on neither of the committees who had access to the video, and when speaking with other lawmakers who have seen the video, she hears different narratives from both - contingent on party lines. “I spoke to a colleague who is on the Intelligence Committee, a Republican, and I spoke to a colleague, a Democrat, who is on the Senate Armed Services Committee ... Their recollection or their retelling of what they saw vastly different.”Wednesday night came amid escalating tensions with Venezuela. The U.S. seized a Venezuelan oil tanker last week and Venezuela has filed a complaint with the U.N. Security Council calling the action “state piracy.”Fairbanks police searching for armed suspect following shooting at College Road SafewayFIRST ALERT: High winds arrive in Southcentral with heavy snow soon to come for SoutheastSearch for two missing boaters near Sitka suspended, Coast Guard says‘We’re all going to die’: Passenger charged after trying to open plane door at 18,000 feet
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