Members of Congress want video of boat attack released

Representative Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the two survivors of the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat “were barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities,” when a follow-up strike took place, reported The New York Times.

 Top military officers briefed Himes and other top lawmakers last week on the Sept. 2 attacks. “When you actually watch the video, you realize they don’t have a radio. They’re barely hanging on and not slipping beneath the waves,” Himes said on Sunday. He called for the public release of the video saying that it was “important that people see what it looks like when the full force of the United States military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under.”

Himes said he was confident in U.S. intelligence that said the boat was involved in drug trafficking, but said he did not believe the Trump administration knew the identify of all 11 people killed in the Sept. 2 boat strikes, which began a campaign of at least 21 similar attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.

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