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Dec. 9, 2025, 11:25 AM ESTBy Courtney KubeA coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration seeking the immediate release of the memo that provides the legal justification for U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats.The complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, argues that the deadly strikes, which have killed at least 87 people since early September, are illegal and that Americans deserve to see the justification for them. The filing requests for the court to order the Justice, State and Defense Departments to immediately search for all records regarding the legal reasoning behind the U.S. military campaign against alleged drug boats, and to release them to the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, and other plaintiffs, including the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights. “We think that the public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of civilians is lawful,” Jeffrey Stein, attorney for the ACLU, said in an interview. “We think that the Trump administration needs to stop these illegal and immoral strikes immediately, and that the officials who have carried them out must be held accountable, not gifted a ‘Get Out of Jail Free card.'”The U.S. military has conducted at least 22 strikes against boats that the Trump administration says are carrying drugs destined for the U.S. The administration has described the crew members targeted in the strikes as smugglers working on behalf of cartels. The first strike on Sept. 2 has become the subject of intense scrutiny after it was reported that two people survived the initial strike on the boat, and were later killed by a second one ordered by Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander overseeing the attacks. Some legal experts and Democratic politicians have argued that the follow-up strike, often known as a “double tap,” violated international law because it targeted two people who were in an incapacitated craft in open waters.Video footage shows a vessel being hit by a U.S. strike on Sept. 2 in the southern Caribbean.@realDonaldTrump via Truth SocialBradley and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefed lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week. Reaction to the briefings was split down party lines, with Republicans defending the follow-up strikes and Democrats expressing continued concern.The advocacy groups said they filed their lawsuit after the government failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents filed on Oct. 15. “By claiming that these attacks are legal while refusing to provide any evidence or rationale, Trump shows once again his disdain for basic transparency, human rights, and the rule of law,” Ify Chikezie, staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a statement. “The courts must step in and order the administration to release these documents immediately.” Stein, of the ACLU, said administrations have routinely released legal justification memos in the past, including regarding sensitive military operations, because they discuss the principles of constitutional law, and classified details can be redacted.In 2011, the Obama administration released a memo explaining why the Justice Department believed U.S. military operations in Libya were in the national interest and that then-President Obama could initiate them without prior authorization from Congress.And during Trump’s first administration, the Justice Department released its legal memo justifying U.S. military strikes on three Syrian chemical weapons facilities.Stein said he disagrees with some who have argued that the strikes amount to war crimes. “We are not in a war, and so any discussion of these illegal strikes as war crimes is inaccurate,” he said. “The law of armed conflict does not apply to these strikes. They are premeditated killings outside of the context of armed conflict, and we have a legal concept for that conduct. It’s murder.”Courtney KubeCourtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

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Sept. 27, 2025, 7:30 AM EDTBy Jared PerloNEW YORK — The United States clashed with world leaders over artificial intelligence at the United Nations General Assembly this week, rejecting calls for global oversight as many pushed for new collaborative frameworks.While many heads of state, corporate leaders and prominent figures endorsed a need for urgent international collaboration on AI, the U.S. delegation criticized the role of the U.N. and pushed back on the idea of centralized governance of AI.Representing the U.S. in Wednesday’s Security Council meeting on AI, Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, said, “We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI.”The path to a flourishing future powered by AI does not lie in “bureaucratic management,” Kratsios said, but instead in “the independence and sovereignty of nations.”While Kratsios shot down the idea of combined AI governance, President Donald Trump said in his speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday that the White House will be “pioneering an AI verification system that everyone can trust” to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention.“Hopefully, the U.N. can play a constructive role, and it will also be one of the early projects under AI,” Trump said. AI “could be one of the great things ever, but it also can be dangerous, but it can be put to tremendous use and tremendous good.”.In a statement to NBC News, a State Department spokesperson said, “The United States supports like-minded nations working together to encourage the development of AI in line with our shared values. The US position in international bodies is to vigorously advocate for international AI governance approaches that promote innovation, reflect American values, and counter authoritarian influence.”The comments rejecting collaborative efforts around AI governance stood in stark contrast to many of the initiatives being launched at the General Assembly.On Thursday, the U.N. introduced the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the U.N.’s first body dedicated to AI governance involving all member states. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said the body would “lay the cornerstones of a global AI ecosystem that can keep pace with the fastest-moving technology in human history.” Speaking after Guterres, Nobel Prize recipient Daron Acemoglu outlined the growing stakes of AI’s rapid development, arguing that “AI is the biggest threat that humanity has faced.”But in an interview with NBC News, Amandeep Singh Gill, the U.N.’s special envoy for digital and emerging technologies, told NBC News that the United States’ critical perception of the U.N.’s role in international AI governance was misconstrued.“I think it’s a misrepresentation to say that the U.N. is somehow getting into the regulation of AI,” Gill said. “These are not top-down power grabs in terms of regulation. The regulation stays where regulation can be done in sovereign jurisdictions.”Instead, the U.N.’s mechanisms “will provide platforms for international cooperation on AI governance,” Gill said.In remarks immediately following Kratsios’ comments, China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu said, “It is vital to jointly foster an open, inclusive, fair and nondiscriminatory environment for technological development and firmly oppose unilateralism and protectionism.”“We support the U.N. playing a central role in AI governance,” Ma said.One day after Kratsios’ remarks at the Security Council, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seemed to push back on Kratsios and gave full-throated support for international cooperation on AI and the U.N.’s role in AI governance.“We need to coordinate a shared vision of AI at a global level, with the U.N. as the legitimate and inclusive forum to forge consensus around common interests,” Sánchez said. “The time is now, when multilateralism is being most questioned and attacked, that we need to reaffirm how suitable it is in addressing challenges such as those represented by AI.”Reacting to the week’s developments, Renan Araujo, director of programs for the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, told NBC News that “no one wants to see a burdensome, bureaucratic governance structure, and the U.S. has succeeded in starting bilateral and minilateral coalitions. At the same time, we should expect AI-related challenges to become more transnational in nature as AI capabilities become more advanced.”This is not the first time the U.N. has addressed AI, having passed the Global Digital Compact last year. The compact laid the foundation for the AI dialogue and for an independent international scientific panel to evaluate AI’s abilities, risks and pathways forward. Guterres announced that nominations to this panel are now open.While Thursday’s event marked the launch of the global dialogue and panel, the dialogue will have its first full meeting in Geneva in summer 2026, in tandem with the International Telecommunication Union’s annual AI for Good summit. The dialogue’s exact functions and first actions will be charted out over the coming months.Jared PerloJared Perlo is a writer and reporter at NBC News covering AI. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.

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