{"id":368619,"date":"2026-08-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-evidence-justified-operation-southern-spear-a-cnn-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:00:09","slug":"what-evidence-justified-operation-southern-spear-a-cnn-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/what-evidence-justified-operation-southern-spear-a-cnn-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"What evidence justified Operation Southern Spear? A CNN investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pS5kSWLBkfk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"What evidence justified Operation Southern Spear? A CNN investigation\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pS5kSWLBkfk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The US military\u2019s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed \u201cindividuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,\u201d Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following \u201ca careful review\u201d of classified information he has seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are murder victims,\u201d the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the US military has killed at least 221 people and destroyed at least 67 vessels in the \u201cOperation Southern Spear\u201d campaign, which began last September. The administration has told Congress the US is in an \u201carmed conflict\u201d against drug cartels, labeling those killed \u201cunlawful combatants\u201d and claiming the ability to engage in lethal strikes without judicial review due to a classified Justice Department finding.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Who are the victims of the US boat strikes?<br \/>\n2:51 CNN investigative journalists on who were killed<br \/>\n5:56 The Pentagon&#8217;s statement<br \/>\n6:35 Senator Kaine on the letter he sent to the White<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#Military #SouthernSpear #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed \u201cindividuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,\u201d Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following \u201ca careful review\u201d of classified information he has seen so far. \u201cThey are murder victims,\u201d the Virginia Democrat wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-368619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What evidence justified Operation Southern Spear? A CNN investigation | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch What evidence justified Operation Southern Spear? 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