These were “righteous strikes,” Cotton, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. He was one of several lawmakers briefed by Admiral Frank Bradley and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine on the Sept. 2 boat strikes in the Caribbean, near Venezuela. Asked to describe what he saw in the footage of the second boat strike, Cotton chuckled. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was “deeply disturbed” by what he saw. “This must and will be the only beginning of our investigation into this incident.”Asked by a reporter what he made of Himes being shaken by the video footage, Cotton essentially shrugged.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2025 17:19 UTC