(KOLO) – U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen is among those asking for the declassification of information related to strikes on boats in the Caribbean the Trump administration says were being used to traffic drugs.
She and other Democrats requested that Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth release the written opinion of the DOJ’s Legal Counsel on the lethal strikes carried out in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
Members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services were allowed to review the Trump administration’s classified legal opinion in a closed setting last week.
Rosen says that the Trump administration has carried out at least 21 military strikes that she says are unauthorized, killing at least 83.
“Significant and noteworthy precedent exists for the public release of OLC opinions related to overseas military action,” wrote the Senators. “After the United States carried out military strikes in Libya in 2011 and in Syria in 2018, the Department of Justice released the applicable OLC opinion justifying each operation.”
“Few decisions are more consequential for a democracy than the use of lethal force,” the Senators continued. “We therefore believe that the declassification and public release of this important document would enhance transparency in the use of deadly force by our Nation’s military and is necessary to ensure Congress and the American people are fully informed of the legal justification supporting these strikes.”
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