"The journalist who initially revealed that President Donald Trump's administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea. Just days after Trump announced the September 2 bombing on social media, Intercept journalist Nick Turse exposed the follow-up strike that killed survivors, citing US officials."
"After the first strike, Bradley then the head of Joint Special Operations Command sought guidance from his top legal adviser, according to Turse. He interviewed several sources familiar with the admiral's recent classified briefing to Congress, former members of the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, and ex-colleagues of the JSOC staff judge advocate to whom Bradley turned, Col. Cara Hamaguchi."
A follow-up strike in the Caribbean Sea killed two alleged drug traffickers clinging to debris after the admiral in charge consulted a US military lawyer. The administration previously killed shipwrecked survivors in its first known boat bombing. Adm. Frank Mitch Bradley, then head of JSOC, sought guidance from his top legal adviser and reported that the JSOC staff judge advocate deemed the follow-up strike lawful. Bradley said no one in the classified briefing voiced objections before the survivors were killed. Later accounts linked the orders to an alleged directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who denies issuing such an instruction.
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