But what I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service.

You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel

who were killed by the United States.

Was Congressman Jim Himes on December 4th after viewing classified briefing about the second strike

in the Caribbean? Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. You do not have to be an

expert in warfare. You don't have to be an expert in warfare.

You don't need to have any sort of encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Conventions

or the laws of armed conflict or the history of the rules of engagement.

You don't even need to have heard of the word perfidy before today to grasp the rank moral

depravity, how far from normal we are. And what is at the center

of what may very well turn out to be a war crime perpetrated by Donald Trump's Department of Defense.

It is the subject of some extraordinary new journalism, some groundbreaking new reporting in the New York

Times that shines a light on

the first of what would be dozens of deadly military strikes on boats alleged to be smuggling

drugs in the Caribbean. We are back at that September 2nd operation. It's in question again,

video of which you just heard Congressman Jim Himes describe as, quote, one of the most

troubling things he'd seen in his time in public service. It was already the subject of scrutiny

having to do with that second strike that killed two survivors floating amid the wreckage.

And now this. The New York Times, citing officials briefed on the matter, reveals this,

that the Pentagon used a secret aircraft, painted to look like a civilian plane,

its munitions carried inside the fuselage rather than visibly under its wings, and that's a big deal.

Such deadly deceit goes back millennia and is prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. In the same way it is

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