Legal experts say the U.S. military would have committed a crime if it intentionally killed survivors of a September strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela.
"I can't imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water," Michael Schmitt, a former Air Force lawyer and professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College, told The Associated Press. "That is clearly unlawful."
