<p>Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claimed on Sunday that he was worried American troops might only learn after the fact that an order they had carried out was unlawful.</p>
<p>Kelly, already under fire for his participation in a video that encouraged members of the military to question the validity of their orders in real time, doubled down during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on NBC and told active-duty U.S. military members that if they follow orders to strike drug-smuggling boats they might be committing illegal acts and could be prosecuted later.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I want to put the question to you,&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker began. &#8220;If you were still in uniform, if you received an order to strike suspected drug boats overseas and kill everybody onboard, would you refuse that order in real time?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, let me start by saying I&#8217;ve sunk two boats — two ships,&#8221; Kelly replied, referencing his own actions during the first Gulf War. &#8220;Never once did I question whether those orders were legal or illegal. People can tell the difference — should be able to tell the difference between something that is unlawful and something that is lawful.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If I was ever given an unlawful order, I would refuse — you know, even if you have time, you can certainly go to the Judge Advocate Generals, the lawyers, and have a discussion about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have time, you just say simply I&#8217;m not going to do that, that&#8217;s against the law.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It puts a lot of burden on the troops to make a decision in real time,&#8221; Welker observed.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous amount of burden on officers in the military,&#8221; Kelly agreed. &#8220;But that is their responsibility, and they can figure out — you know, a reasonable person can tell something that is legal and something that is illegal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Welker asked again, directly, whether Kelly would refuse the orders to strike drug boats.</p>
<p>Kelly did not offer a definitive answer, but instead said that he worried about troops who &#8220;may find out down the road that they did something that is illegal&#8221; because they acted on an order that reflected &#8220;the whims of a president&#8221; rather than law.</p>
<p>Thus far, there has been no <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/does-the-president-have-the-authority-to-strike-venezuelan-drug-boats">real consensus</a> regarding the legality of the strikes.</p>

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