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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Legal or Illegal - The Debate on Military Strikes

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Research that resonates.

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He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

0:09.0

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably

0:16.0

done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.

0:22.6

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.

0:27.6

We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,

0:31.6

and we're going to try to go further.

0:33.6

Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.

0:37.6

Thank God.

0:38.5

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,

0:43.4

The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:45.7

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

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Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer, and welcome to the Drill Down.

0:52.2

Well, there are attacks on drug ships,

0:56.0

drug boats taking place right now conducted by the U.S. military. Are they a good idea? And are they

1:01.8

actually legal? Those are the questions we're going to discuss today with one of the top attorneys in

1:07.3

Washington, D.C., who is a national security expert. The co-host of this program,

1:11.8

of course, is Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? Hey, talking about two of my favorite things,

1:15.9

things that might be good and things that might be illegal. Why is there such a gap in the Venn

1:20.4

diagram there? That's exactly right. So a lot of people aware these strikes are taking place on drug boats

1:29.4

that are shipping drugs off the coast of Venezuela. There's been a wild reaction against this

1:36.4

by a number of quarters. Listen to this audio clip from the media and from leading decision makers

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