From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

It's been three months since the American military began firing on boats from South America,

killing more than 80 people and prompting Democrats to raise urgent questions about whether these attacks might be illegal.

But now...

We're going to conduct oversight and we're going to try to get to the facts.

New questions about one of those operations in which the military killed survivors with a second missile

have prompted congressional Republicans to join those calls for accountability.

There are very serious concerns in Congress about the attacks on the so-called drugboats down in the Caribbean.

Today, my colleague Charlie Savage explains the renewed debate and how the administration is

justifying its actions.

It's Wednesday, December 3rd.

Charlie, we had you on the show a couple months ago to talk about the Trump administration's

campaign of boat strikes in the Caribbean against boats that they argued were carrying drugs

from Venezuela to the United States. And from the beginning, there were questions about the

legality of these attacks, right? And those questions took on new urgency this week, with lawmakers,

notably Republicans, announcing

plans to investigate.

And that's where I'd like to start today with the Washington Post story that seems to have

kicked all of this off.

So the day after Thanksgiving, the Washington Post published a very good story about the

first of Trump's boat attacks way back

on September 2nd. Now, that had always been the most questionable of the 21 attacks that have

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