With the Pentagon facing renewed pressure to release video from a controversial Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat, current and former U.S. Coast Guard sources tell Newsmax that they doubt survivors of the initial hit could have posed the threat cited as justification for follow-up attacks.
“Current and former Coast Guard sources have told me that there was no way that two-strike survivors could have flipped the targeted drug boat back over on Sept. 2, and there was likely no way that they could have reloaded the drugs on board,” Newsmax national security correspondent Carla Babb reported on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”
She noted that the sources based their assessment on familiarity with the vessels and the realities of at-sea smuggling operations.
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