They had a very hard time explaining to us the rationale, the legal rationale for doing this and the constitutionality of doing it. When you consider what you know, the law of warfare, especially at sea, was a very convoluted argument. It also included, by the way, a secret list of over 20 narco organizations, drug trafficking, cartels. They wouldn't share with us the list. So the brief we got was had a tremendous number of holes in it, and they had to go round and around to give us the legal rationale for doing this. (01:57–02:10)
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