WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, sent a letter to President Donald Trump pressing him on U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific and calling for accountability. The Trump-Vance Administration has not provided any legitimate legal justification for the military strikes or evidence to support its claims that the targeted vessels were narcotraffickers. It was recently reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/27/operation-southern-spear-has-not-slowed-cocaine-entering-us/) that analysts from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) found that the military strikes have ha...