Legitimate prizes could be sold, and the privateer got to keep the money. Those bearing a letter of marque couldn’t be considered a pirate, but treated as a prisoner of war. (Letters of reprisal ...

Utah Senator Mike Lee and Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett are pushing for letters of marque and reprisal to be issued.

He called for privateers—that is, pirates operating with the approval of a government—to aid a war effort against France and Spain. The murky, oft-mythologized history of piracy is brought ...

Lee said it’s the same clause that gives Congress the power to declare war, but it also allows the legislative branch to issue letters of marque, “authorizing privateers, pirates essentially … to ...

What lawmakers are contemplating is a letter of marque that bestows the authority to execute an open-ended maritime campaign under supervision from Washington.

(The Hill) – Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) suggested Wednesday that Congress and President Trump should allow private citizens, or “pirates,” to take on international cartels to protect ...

Lee said it’s the same clause that gives Congress the power to declare war, but it also allows the legislative branch to issue letters of marque, “authorizing privateers, pirates essentially ...