WASHINGTON — During a news conference on Thursday, Sen. Mark Warner criticized the Trump administration for excluding Democrats from attending a briefing about the U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean.
Warner, D-Va., said he agrees that Nicolás Maduro “is a bad guy” and the “drug gangs are awful,” but State Secretary Marco Rubio failed when the briefing allowed only about a dozen Republicans.
“If there is a United States policy to try to remove him, it sure as hell at least be shared with the Gang of Eight,” Warner said about a bipartisan group of congressional leaders who are briefed on intelligence matters.
Warner, the vice chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee, said the Trump administration should at least share the “secret target list” and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel opinion.
“Shutting Democrats out of a briefing on U.S. military strikes and withholding the legal justification for those strikes from half the Senate is indefensible and dangerous,” Warner said.
The Pentagon has described the operations in the Caribbean as part of President Donald Trump’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and counter “narco-terrorism.”
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