Can anyone imagine Democrats doing this to a Democrat president?
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.
Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos. The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Congressional leaders released their final draft of the defense bill Sunday, which is expected to be approved — without changes — by the House later this week and then the Senate. (snip)
Bradley and Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine last week briefed top lawmakers on national security committees and showed the unedited footage of the operation. But lawmakers disagreed about what the video revealed. Some top Republicans who viewed the unedited footage contend it vindicates the administration’s position. Democrats have called on the Pentagon to release it more broadly.
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), following the briefing, also said he wants rank-and-file committee members to see the footage.
Democrats are caterwauling about striking foreign drug runners, something most Americans agree with, and Republicans, instead of saying “piss off, take the side of Americans” are giving Democrats what they want.
(NY Times) Mr. Reed (top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee) said that he and Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had given Mr. Hegseth “more than enough time to respond in good faith to reasonable questions,” but that the defense secretary “has refused.”
The two senators had warned in October that the Pentagon was skirting Congress as it continued to ramp up the campaign against alleged drug traffickers at sea. They made public two letters sent to Mr. Hegseth demanding more information on the strikes, saying the secretary had failed to respond.
Well, we’ll see if the Republicans in the House and Senate buy into this crap, or if they tell Dems and squishes like Wicker to go pound sand, to put it nicely. Too often Republicans go squish because the Credentialed Media is being mean, and then we end up with things like “not another dime” and Republican voters staying home during elections.
The “credentialed media” sometimes also known as mass media has only one agenda, that being profits.
They give the USA what they believe most Americans want. This is the reason Breitbart has so few customers. Their Uber right wing view of reality is not what Americans want. This is also why during prime time news hour Fox gets about 10 % of the audience, and ABC,CBS, and NBC get the most. There is only one or two center right news outlets and Americans choose to to consume that
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Hard rightwing authority believers always justify the end justify the means. In this case the desired end, eliminating all drug abuse , justifies the means Shooting surrendering survivors.
This of course would also apply to the 3yo girl forced to act as her own attorney in an immigration deportation case.
Al Qaeda justified 9/11 Is terrorism justified? Is shooting people who are surrendering terrorism? Will publicizing the shooting of surrendering criminals liable to terrorize them?
Who will post here that the ends always justify the means?