Sen.Tim Kaine, D-Va., in a letter to President Donald Trump suggested that an examination of the evidence indicates that the administration's boat strikes against alleged drug traffickers have killed people who were not participating in narcotrafficking."They are murder victims," the lawmaker asserted in the Aug.
3 letter.White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital, "On the campaign trail, President Trump promised to take on the cartels – and he has taken unprecedented action to stop the scourge of narcoterrorism that has resulted in the needless deaths of innocent Americans.All of these decisive strikes have been against designated narcoterrorists bringing deadly poison to our shores, and the President will continue to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice."Fox News Digital also reached out to the War Department on Monday.US MILITARY CONDUCTS STRIKE ON ANOTHER VESSEL CARRYING ALLEGED NARCO-TRAFFICKERS, KILLING 2Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, arrives for a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)The U.S.
military has conducted dozens of deadly strikes against vessels of alleged "narco-terrorists.""In late July 2025, you directed the Department of Defense to conduct kinetic operations to combat narcotrafficking operations in the Americas.You selected numerous organizations for targeting.
That target list is classified so I cannot reveal it.Importantly, the classification of the list means that those you have asked the Department of Defense to target are entirely unaware that they are marked for execution," Kaine wrote in the letter."In September 2025, the United States launched boat strikes in international waters in the Americas pursuant to your directive.
A Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion issued in Septemb...