A group of mostly Democratic senators is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to declassify and release the legal opinion underpinning the Trump administration’s airstrikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.
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The U.S. military has carried out lethal strikes on alleged drug smugglers, which President Donald Trump has defended as a necessary escalation to curb the flow of drugs into the United States.
“Few decisions are more consequential for a democracy than the use of lethal force. We therefore believe that the declassification and public release of this important document would enhance transparency,” the senators wrote.
Among the lawmakers who signed the letter were Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Independent Sen. Angus King. Trump recently accused Slotkin and Kelly of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after they appeared in a video with other lawmakers urging troops to defy “illegal orders.”
