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Lawmaker Demands Hearing on U.S. Strikes on Boats in Caribbean

Representative Adam Smith said the Trump administration had failed to provide a legal rationale for killing rather than arresting drug trafficking suspects.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, in June. “President Trump and his administration continue to fail to answer pressing questions regarding the president’s orders to carry out lethal U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea,” he said in a statement on Monday.
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