Senators Divided on Release of Boat Strike Footage

Several Republican senators are pressing War Secretary Pete Hegseth to release video from a Sept. 2 follow-up strike that involved a U.S. military attack on a Venezuelan boat suspected of drug smuggling.

The Hill reported that Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he favors making the video available to lawmakers and potentially to the public.

“My bias would be to make it available. That would be the best thing to do,” Cornyn said, adding that releasing the footage could blunt Democratic claims that Hegseth is concealing wrongdoing.

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