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Doualisai Kowtow (0:17)
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Doualisai Kowtow. Some lawmakers who attended closed door briefings about the attack of a boat allegedly involved in drug smuggling in the Caribbean are demanding further investig. Representative Jim Himes is the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He said he wants the video to be released to the public.
Representative Jim Himes (0:41)
What you see in that video is the United States for a lengthy period of time observing two men with no weapons, with no radio. They've just had a massive munition go off over their head in such a way that their boat has been a conflagration. So what I saw was two probably soon to be dead, not because of a missile, but because of drowning shipwrecked sailors. And the United States took the decision to kill them, which in the Pentagon manual is the very definition of a war crime.
Doualisai Kowtow (1:11)
Himes said killing unindicted criminals without due process is problematic, but he added, the notion that the men were going to right their boat and continue on the way is nonsensical. The Federal Aviation Administration says it has chosen a project manager for its $12 billion overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
Joel Rose (1:36)
The FAA says it has picked Peraton, a national security company with headquarters in Northern Virginia, as the project manager for its multi billion dollar effort to overhaul the nation's aging air traffic control system. Congress approved $12.5 billion in July to upgrade the equipment that air traffic controllers use after decades of complaints about technology failures and crumbling facilities. Peraton will act as the single integrator to manage the massive project, according to the faa, which chose the firm over a joint bid by Parsons and IBM. Aviation leaders say $12.5 billion is just a down payment and that it will likely take an additional $20 billion to complete the work. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
Doualisai Kowtow (2:16)
President Trump has been awarded a peace prize created this year by international soccer governing body. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports. Trump was widely expected to win the award because of his close relationship with the FIFA president.
Franco Ordonez (2:31)