Media Offers Only Hearsay Evidence about the Unreleased, Unedited 1st Boat Strike Video; “Lawmakers say It was Shocking.” Gemini Said the Original Video Looked “Cartoon Like” and "AI Generated"

Video footage of a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel as they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after speaking with the Navy admiral who oversaw the controversial mission.

The recording was shown during a day of closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill featuring Adm. Frank M. Bradley, the commander who oversaw the Sept. 2 operation, which entailed four strikes in all. The attack killed 11 people, including the two people who survived the first blast that hit their boat.

Rep. Jim Himes (Connecticut), the House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, described the footage as “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.” The two survivors, he said, were “in clear distress” after their boat was “destroyed.” [MORE]

“I am deeply disturbed by what I saw this morning,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after the briefing. “The Department of Defense has no choice but to release the complete, unedited footage of the September 2 strike, as the president has agreed to do.”

Reed’s remarks came after Adm. Frank Bradley and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine briefed some members of the Senate and House Armed Services and Intelligence committees on the so-called “double-tap” strike, in which nine people were killed in the initial bombing and two survivors clinging to the burning wreckage of the vessel were slain in second attack. [MORE]

Until Thursday, the only video of the attack that had been seen by lawmakers was an edited clip posted to the Truth Social account of President Donald Trump on September 2 announcing the strike. The edited clip captures the initial strike, showing a four-engine speedboat erupt in an explosion. It does not show the second strike on the wreckage of the vessel and the survivors — which was first reported by The Intercept.

Trump has said he supports the release of the video showing the second boat strike that killed the remaining survivors of the initial September 2 attack. “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release, no problem,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. [MORE]

Google Gemini Concluded that Videos of the US Boat Strikes were AI Generated. With No Dead Bodies, Destroyed Boats, Funerals or Witnesses, the Only Proof that Strikes Occurred is that Trump Said So

Besides the video, which looks like a 80’s video game, massa media and authority have not presented any tangible evidence of boats being destroyed, such as damaged boats, dead bodies, funerals, witnesses, drugs or other contraband, etc. Also, if the 2 lone survivors of the several attacks were terrorist/drug dealers who the US intended to kill, then why did US authorities promptly release them without any charges? If they were so imminently dangerous to the nation then for what reason were they not also summarily “executed” upon capture or detained without charges as enemies of the state? [MORE]

Venezuelans, who should be reasonably angered about the ongoing random murder spree, appear to have had no reaction to the boat strikes in the many public gatherings since the strikes began. You would also assume that Venezuela authorities would use the boat murders against Tump/Bush to its moral advantage on the international stage. However, Freddy Ñáñez, the Venezuelan communications minister, stated that the footage of the attack was fake. [MORE] and Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, characterized the strike as "fake news" "invented" by the US as a cover for regime change and President Maduro has ignored the strikes altogether making no mention of them in his various speeches. [MORE]