00:00We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it, but I must tell you, it's the
00:07most convoluted bullshit I ever heard in my life.
00:10This should be public. This is our honor. With that in mind, let's look back a few weeks ago when
00:16a fishing crew ended a long day of hard fishing, scoring a full stock of albacore and swordfish on board.
00:23Without any warning or expectation, this small Ecuadorian fishing vessel, operating about 200 nautical miles off the Galapagos Islands, was
00:33militarily engaged by U.S. forces.
00:36It was hit once, then it was hit again. Not a warning shot, not an interdiction, two drone strikes.
00:43Survivors described chaos and severe injuries.
00:46Our U.S. forces then handcuffed the crew at gunpoint, placed black hoods over their heads, seized and scrubbed their
00:52devices, and then held them for days.
00:56Ultimately, the crew was released, given there was no evidence.
00:59No evidence to support any narco activity or any charges that may be against them.
01:06So to recap, we struck a vessel, struck it again, set fire to it as it was sinking.
01:11And as public reports say, we drank their beer, we detained the survivors, and then we let them go.
01:18This should be eye-opening.
01:20Let's go to another example, the double-tap or two-strike attack that took place on September 2nd in the
01:27Caribbean.
01:27A vessel was struck, disabled, and then struck again, killing all but two survivors that were left clinging to the
01:34wreckage.
01:36And this is the thing. We know this happened. We know how it happened.
01:42And the Defense Department still refuses to release the follow-up video of the killing of the shipwrecked survivors,
01:48even though they released the initial one to the public in major news networks worldwide.
01:55No difference in sources and methods in the two videos, but still not released to the public.
02:01Of course, the backlash was severe at the time and perhaps is being forgotten.
02:06And in a predictable but ennoble display of character from this administration,
02:11fingers were pointed at one another as everyone scurried to cover,
02:14in a tacit acknowledgment that this was an issue potentially violating international law.
02:20Now, I've reviewed what's been available, the phony rationale that these attacks are about fentanyl trafficking,
02:28when we know fentanyl comes from China, India, through Mexico.
02:34Then the baseless argument that this was about narco-terrorism, you know, I don't believe a word of it.
02:40This was to create leverage for regime change in Venezuela.
02:46And now the President acknowledged that was about oil.
02:50Beyond the simple need for justice and exercising American values,
02:54it's important for us to discuss what the U.S. belligerence in the world stage means to our security,
03:01our ability to marshal cooperation with our allies,
03:04and most importantly, not to normalize these actions that could endanger the lives of our own service members put in
03:13similar peril.
03:16So, let me be clear about one thing.
03:18Whether it's these particular strikes discussed here, the one that killed 11 others off the coast of Venezuela,
03:24whether it's the 178 other killings,
03:27with each of these extrajudicial killings,
03:30the administration is pirating American values.
03:34We'll continue to investigate this.
03:37We will.
03:39It'll come forward in the future.
03:41Some days, that second video will be released.
03:45But we've got to stop also using our precious resources that are being taxed so heavily all over the world
03:52on actions that hurt our military.
03:56They hurt our military and they hurt our standing internationally.
04:01And they're hurting our standard here at home.
04:05I hope that we can move forward.
04:08I hope we're going to review whether these are justified because I found no justification.
04:15We were given classified information on the second strike.
04:18I can't discuss it.
04:19But I must tell you, it's the most convoluted bullshit I ever heard in my life.
04:25This should be public.
04:26This is our honor.
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