THE LATEST | CANADAWashington Post: Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral who oversaw the controversial mission…
New York Times: Lawmakers briefed by Admiral Bradley said the admiral denied that he was given any order, written or oral, to “kill them all” or “grant no quarter,” rejecting public reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had directly ordered the follow-up strike to kill the survivors…
Associated Press: Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said, “what I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
“You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,” he said, and who “were killed by the United States…
CNN: The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings…