As yet
another news cycle was dominated by the latest chapter of the
President Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels controversy on Thursday, the
New York Times quietly published an alarming report detailing a
secret U.S. Green Beret operation along Saudi Arabia's border with
Yemen that was launched by the Trump White House late last year with
no debate, discussion, or congressional authorization.
Responding
to the Times report on Thursday—which indicates the U.S. has
significantly escalated its involvement in Saudi Arabia's war on
Yemen—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed alarm at the covert
activities of American special forces and said he will be demanding
answers about "these activities."
"I
have strong concerns that the Trump administration is getting the
U.S. more involved in a war in Yemen without congressional
authorization," Sanders—who in March helped lead a failed
effort to halt U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's relentless and illegal
assault on Yemen—wrote on Twitter. "We must prevent the
U.S. from getting dragged into another never-ending war.”
Sanders
wasn't alone among progressives in condemning the secret military
activity in Saudi Arabia.
In a
tweet on Thursday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) wrote "our
troops continue to see their involvement increase in the Saudi-led
war against the Houthis" and denounced the covert operation
as "an unconstitutional and unauthorized use of military
force."
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