Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump’s military strikes on boats

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack.

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Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump's military strikes on boats

Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
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Hume said:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack.

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Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump's military strikes on boats

Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
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lets hope the Magats in Congress can maintain a spine when the Trump Admin pressure follows to shut this down.

The closer we get to mid terms, and as Trump is perceived more and more as a lame duck, the more certain Magats will want to establish themselves as more independent from him.
 
Lionfish said:
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Damocles said:
This needs to be everywhere.
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WHy?

Did you get duped AGAIN?


AI SUmmary with citations:


Here’s a fact-checked explanation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of 1986 (MDLEA) and the question of whether it authorized the U.S. military to fire on drug-smuggling boats — including what Congress actually did and didn’t do.



📜 1) What the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act actually was​


  • The MDLEA was enacted in 1986 as part of broader anti-drug legislation to strengthen U.S. law enforcement authority at sea.
  • Its core purpose was to combat illegal drug trafficking on vessels, including on the high seas, by applying U.S. narcotics law to:
    • U.S. vessels on the high seas
    • Foreign vessels that consent to U.S. enforcement
    • Vessels without nationality
  • It expanded the Coast Guard’s authority to board, search, seize, and arrest suspects engaged in maritime drug trafficking in places where U.S. jurisdiction applies. Wikipedia+1

✅ Key point: The MDLEA focus is on criminal jurisdiction and enforcement (boarding/searching/seizure), not on authorizing deadly force by the U.S. military against vessels at sea. Wikipedia



📌 2) Did the Act authorize the military to fire on drug-smuggling boats?​


No — the MDLEA did not explicitly authorize the U.S. military to fire on smuggling boats as a matter of course.


  • The law is a criminal enforcement statute that defines illegal conduct and gives law enforcement (not military combat authority) tools to pursue suspects on the high seas. Wikipedia
  • Its primary mechanism is criminal jurisdiction and prosecution — meaning seizure, arrest, and bringing traffickers into the U.S. justice system — rather than military engagement orders. Congress.gov

There is no clause in the text of the MDLEA that says “the military may shoot drug boats in international waters.” Online claims to that effect misinterpret general interdiction authority as combat authorization, which is incorrect. Factually
 
QP! said:
WHy?

Did you get duped AGAIN?


AI SUmmary with citations:


Here’s a fact-checked explanation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of 1986 (MDLEA) and the question of whether it authorized the U.S. military to fire on drug-smuggling boats — including what Congress actually did and didn’t do.



📜 1) What the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act actually was​


  • The MDLEA was enacted in 1986 as part of broader anti-drug legislation to strengthen U.S. law enforcement authority at sea.
  • Its core purpose was to combat illegal drug trafficking on vessels, including on the high seas, by applying U.S. narcotics law to:
    • U.S. vessels on the high seas
    • Foreign vessels that consent to U.S. enforcement
    • Vessels without nationality
  • It expanded the Coast Guard’s authority to board, search, seize, and arrest suspects engaged in maritime drug trafficking in places where U.S. jurisdiction applies. Wikipedia+1

✅ Key point: The MDLEA focus is on criminal jurisdiction and enforcement (boarding/searching/seizure), not on authorizing deadly force by the U.S. military against vessels at sea. Wikipedia



📌 2) Did the Act authorize the military to fire on drug-smuggling boats?​


No — the MDLEA did not explicitly authorize the U.S. military to fire on smuggling boats as a matter of course.


  • The law is a criminal enforcement statute that defines illegal conduct and gives law enforcement (not military combat authority) tools to pursue suspects on the high seas. Wikipedia
  • Its primary mechanism is criminal jurisdiction and prosecution — meaning seizure, arrest, and bringing traffickers into the U.S. justice system — rather than military engagement orders. Congress.gov

There is no clause in the text of the MDLEA that says “the military may shoot drug boats in international waters.” Online claims to that effect misinterpret general interdiction authority as combat authorization, which is incorrect. Factually
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I call this FAFO. Then, I ask QPeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, why he supports drug runners.
 
QP! said:
WHy?

Did you get duped AGAIN?


AI SUmmary with citations:


Here’s a fact-checked explanation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of 1986 (MDLEA) and the question of whether it authorized the U.S. military to fire on drug-smuggling boats — including what Congress actually did and didn’t do.



📜 1) What the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act actually was​


  • The MDLEA was enacted in 1986 as part of broader anti-drug legislation to strengthen U.S. law enforcement authority at sea.
  • Its core purpose was to combat illegal drug trafficking on vessels, including on the high seas, by applying U.S. narcotics law to:
    • U.S. vessels on the high seas
    • Foreign vessels that consent to U.S. enforcement
    • Vessels without nationality
  • It expanded the Coast Guard’s authority to board, search, seize, and arrest suspects engaged in maritime drug trafficking in places where U.S. jurisdiction applies. Wikipedia+1

✅ Key point: The MDLEA focus is on criminal jurisdiction and enforcement (boarding/searching/seizure), not on authorizing deadly force by the U.S. military against vessels at sea. Wikipedia



📌 2) Did the Act authorize the military to fire on drug-smuggling boats?​


No — the MDLEA did not explicitly authorize the U.S. military to fire on smuggling boats as a matter of course.


  • The law is a criminal enforcement statute that defines illegal conduct and gives law enforcement (not military combat authority) tools to pursue suspects on the high seas. Wikipedia
  • Its primary mechanism is criminal jurisdiction and prosecution — meaning seizure, arrest, and bringing traffickers into the U.S. justice system — rather than military engagement orders. Congress.gov

There is no clause in the text of the MDLEA that says “the military may shoot drug boats in international waters.” Online claims to that effect misinterpret general interdiction authority as combat authorization, which is incorrect. Factually
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@Damocles , do you still think that false info, that duped many in magatville, needs to be spread everywhere?
 
Hume said:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack.

apnews.com

Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump's military strikes on boats

Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
apnews.com apnews.com
Click to expand...
Trump doesn't need permission from losers like Kaine or Paul to act. That's reality, something you lefties abandoned years ago while the rest of us still inhabit it. Keep raining hell on the cartels, Mr. President. You're the only one who's actually hurt them. Maduro's sweating harder with every bomb dropped and tanker seized. His regime's days are numbered. Tell Kaine to go pound sand. Hard.

Rand Paul? He's the perpetual 'no' vote on anything practical, hiding behind his 'principles'. Newsflash, genius: politics involves compromise, especially with a razor-thin majority. When Rand stands alone against every other Senate Republican, it's just Tuesday in DC.

And the star of this moron-bait clickfest? Tim Kaine. Straight out of central casting as the sleazy, corrupt politician who'd sell his own mother for a favorable poll. The seething hate etched into that smug face fits him perfectly. Never forget this loser lectured us that rights come from government, not God. Full stop. That one quote exposes him as the authoritarian scumbag he is.
 
Tobytone said:
Trump doesn't need permission from losers like Kaine or Paul to act. That's reality, something you lefties abandoned years ago while the rest of us still inhabit it. Keep raining hell on the cartels, Mr. President. You're the only one who's actually hurt them. Maduro's sweating harder with every bomb dropped and tanker seized. His regime's days are numbered. Tell Kaine to go pound sand. Hard.

Rand Paul? He's the perpetual 'no' vote on anything practical, hiding behind his 'principles'. Newsflash, genius: politics involves compromise, especially with a razor-thin majority. When Rand stands alone against every other Senate Republican, it's just Tuesday in DC.

And the star of this moron-bait clickfest? Tim Kaine. Straight out of central casting as the sleazy, corrupt politician who'd sell his own mother for a favorable poll. The seething hate etched into that smug face fits him perfectly. Never forget this loser lectured us that rights come from government, not God. Full stop. That one quote exposes him as the authoritarian scumbag he is.
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Trump need approval by Congress for acts of war.
 
Lionfish said:
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Oh yeah, don't forget good old Amtrak Joe Biden calling for way tougher action back in the day. In 1989, this tough-talking senator demanded 'Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it.'

Fast-forward to now. Back when the War on Drugs was raging, we lost maybe a few thousand lives a year to overdoses. Last year? Over 100,000 Americans poisoned dead. So tell me, Democrats. You taking cartel cash under the table? Or why else are you fighting tooth and nail to keep these killers breathing and their poison flowing freely across the border? Hypocrisy much?
 
Hume said:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack.

apnews.com

Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump's military strikes on boats

Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
apnews.com apnews.com
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Congress authorized the strikes, Hugo.
 
QP! said:
lets hope the Magats in Congress can maintain a spine when the Trump Admin pressure follows to shut this down.

The closer we get to mid terms, and as Trump is perceived more and more as a lame duck, the more certain Magats will want to establish themselves as more independent from him.
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Congress authorized the strike, Kewpie. Congress isn't just Democrats.
Democrats are already attempting insurrection.
 
Hume said:
Trump need approval by Congress for acts of war.
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Sorry loser. Trump doesn't need a damn thing from Kaine or any other congressional parasite to keep pounding the cartels. Every strike is lawyered up six ways to Sunday with mountains of precedent behind it.

Cry harder. Let sleazebags like Kaine stomp their feet and scare you gullible dumbasses into emptying your wallets into their bankrupt campaigns. Nobody who actually matters gives a shit about your whining or any polls.

Thank God our system lets a real president act without begging permission from venomous politicians or their brainwashed zombie followers like you. We aren't ruled by focus groups or media hysterics. The only poll that counts is the next election.

It sucks to be such a scumbag, doesn't it? Always wrong about everything. No? Prove it. You won't because you can't, because you and the least popular group of scumbag politicians in history are wrong, as usual. They know it, but they also know how stupid you drones are. And I get to point it out, lol.
 
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