Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested that private citizens – which he referred to as “privateers” – should be allowed to chase down Mexican drug cartels and receive a profit for their bounty as a way of ...

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 ...

Languages: English. Email: [email protected]. Private United States citizens could be deployed as "pirates" to tackle Mexican drug cartels under proposals put forward by Republicans.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Built in 1567 by Governor Pedro de Acuña on a sandbank at Cartagena Bay, the Fort of San Matías protected the city from ...

(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 ...