"On Wednesday, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee held a briefing on the bombings, but iced out their Democratic colleagues on the committee. Speaking at the Capitol on Thursday, Warner slammed the GOP-only briefing, calling it bulls***: If you're sitting in this room getting clearly what had been prior Gang-of-Eight-level classified information, didn't somebody raise their hand and say, Well, holy crap, where are the Democrats? [] We got a ham-handed, Oh, maybe you're right. Whatever. I say bulls***."
"Over in the House, the Armed Services Committee held a briefing on the bombings. Democrats attended, but were not pleased with the answers they received from the Trump administration. Am I leaving satisfied? Absolutely not, Rep. Seth Moulton told reporters on Thursday. And the last word that I gave to the admiral was, I hope you recognize the constitutional peril that you are in and the peril you are putting our troops in.'"
The U.S. military has conducted strikes on vessels near Venezuela and Colombia. The administration claims the boats were carrying narcoterrorists trafficking drugs but has provided no evidence for those claims. At least 57 people have been killed in the strikes, and the president has indicated the U.S. may bomb Venezuela itself. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee held a briefing on the bombings that excluded Democratic senators. Sen. Mark Warner publicly condemned the GOP-only briefing as unacceptable. The House Armed Services Committee held a separate briefing where Democrats expressed dissatisfaction with administration answers and warned of constitutional and operational risks.
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