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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...