Democrats leave classified briefing on US military strikes unsatisfied after Trump administration pulls Pentagon lawyers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Democrats say the Trump administration still won’t share critical details of recent US military strikes on suspected drug boats in the western hemisphere, asserting that Pentagon lawyers were pulled at the last minute Thursday from a briefing on Capitol Hill.

As they emerged from the closed-door session, they railed on the administration for not being transparent and appearing to flout the law. The briefing came a day after Democrats say they were shut out of another meeting where administration officials shared information on the strikes with their Republican colleagues.

“Am I leaving satisfied? Absolutely not. And the last word that I gave to the admiral was, ‘I hope you recognize the constitutional peril that you are in and the peril you are putting our troops in’,” Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts told reporters of the Thursday briefing.

“What I heard here today was a tactical brief. I heard no strategy, no end game, no assessment of how they are going to end the flow of drugs into the United States, which needs to happen, by the way,” Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, who sits on the House Armed Services and the Intelligence committees, said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-leave-classified-briefing-us-193935990.html

[Grins]

1. Here's a thought! Arrest the buyers if those drugs

No buyers; no market , no smuggling

[karynnj]

2. Better to arrest those at the top of the distribution network

selling the drugs. Addicted users are as much victim as criminal. The hard part after arresting users is what could be done to end their usage and rehabilitate them.

[DET]

3. Of Course They Did

Why are they continuing the fiction that this has anything to do with drugs? They know damn well that he just wants the oil.