Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., on Friday said he expected video footage of the Sept. 2 military strike at the center of controversy over whether the U.S. killed noncombatants in the Caribbean to eventually be released.
Speaking during a gathering of the Defense Writers Group, Warner, who as a member of congressional and intelligence leadership known as the Gang of Eight was able to view the entirety of the footage from that day, said the Trump administration should release the unedited video to the public or, at the very least, to all members of Congress.
According to reporting from The Washington Post, the video shows multiple U.S. military strikes on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs near Trinidad. After an initial strike killed nine on board but left two survivors clinging to the wreckage, the military allegedly carried out additional missile strikes to kill them and sink any remaining drugs.
