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To: Les H who wrote (47660)	9/13/2025 11:38:16 AM
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Senators: Pentagon Has Not Given “Any” Justification for Caribbean Boat Strike “There is no evidence — none — that this strike was conducted in self-defense,” said Sen. Jack Reed. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout Published September 12, 2025 The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee has said that the Pentagon has provided Congress with “no evidence” to back its claims on the legitimacy of the boat strike in the Caribbean that killed 11 people who experts say were civilians. The Defense Department briefed congressional staff on the strike on Tuesday, CNN reports. The officials did not present any evidence backing the Trump administration’s claims that the people targeted were affiliated with a gang or cartel, according to Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island). “They have offered no positive identification that the boat was Venezuelan, nor that its crew were members of Tren de Aragua or any other cartel,” said Reed after the briefing, per CNN. ... The Pentagon has denied Reed’s account. In a letter sent after the briefing, Reed and 19 Democrats also noted that they have been provided with no information to back the legality of the strike. “The Trump Administration has yet to provide Congress or the American people with any legitimate legal justification for the strike, or any evidence to support its claims regarding the basis for this strike or the future strikes it has openly threatened to launch across the region,” the senators wrote. Officials reportedly also indicated that the Pentagon did not know where the boat was headed; President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have offered differing narratives on where the boat was going. Trump has said that the boat was “heading to the United States,” while Rubio said the boat “probably headed to Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean.” However, The New York Times reported on Wednesday that officials say that, in reality, the boat had turned around and was potentially headed back toward shore before the military launched the strike, even further undercutting the administration’s self-defense narrative. The Venezuelan interior minister said this week that none of the people on the boat were affiliated with the gang, according to their own investigations. “We have done our investigations here in our country and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers,” said Diosdado Cabello. “A murder has been committed against a group of citizens using lethal force.” Legal experts have said that the U.S.’s strike likely violated numerous domestic and international laws. truthout.org