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Rand Paul Reveals Venezuela Boat Attack Was a Drone Strike. The senator told The Intercept the attack defied rules of engagement and came from a drone.


Sen. Rand Paul told The Intercept the attack defied rules of engagement and came from a drone. A legal expert calls it murder.

He also took a dim view of Trump’s War Powers report to Congress, in which the president justified the attack under his Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U.S. military and claimed to be acting pursuant to the United States’ inherent right of self-defense as a matter of international law. Last week, a high-ranking Pentagon official who spoke to the Intercept on the condition of anonymity said that the strike in the Caribbean a criminal attack on civilians and said that the Trump administration paved the way for it by firing the top legal authorities of the Army and the Air Force earlier this year. Before the Trump administration ramped up tensions with Venezuela in recent weeks, the Pentagon had already been carrying out numerous training missions, exercises, and conferences — that have mostly been ignored by the press — with military personnel from across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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