Democrats Excluded From Congressional Briefing on Boat Strikes, Warner Says

Democrats were kept out of an Oct. 30 congressional briefing concerning recent lethal U.S. strikes on Latin American drug traffickers, according to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Warner, who serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, expressed outrage at the alleged partisan snub. “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,” the Virginia Democrat said in a Wednesday press statement. “Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party.”...