"Heeding Hegseth's directive, the Post said Admiral Frank Bradley ordered a second strike, which killed the survivors. Hegseth initially responded to the story by calling it fake news, but has since acknowledged the second strike and claimed it was Bradley's decision. The secretary insisted on Tuesday that he didn't stick around to watch the boat strikes, but this directly contradicts his Sept. 3 boast on Fox News, where he said, I watched it live."
"King said he wanted to ascertain Hegseth's orders to the admiral and what he knew about the strike. Again, we'll wait to get the facts, but it appears that two people survived the initial boat strike and they were in the water hanging on to the wreckage of the boat, King continued. And the special forces went in and killed them. That's against the law. That's a war crime. That's a stone-cold, clear war crime."
On Sept. 2 the U.S. Navy bombed a vessel the Trump administration described as carrying drugs and narcoterrorists. The Washington Post reported Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered everyone on board killed; after the first strike two survivors clung to wreckage and a second strike killed them. Hegseth initially dismissed the report as fake news, later acknowledged the second strike and attributed the decision to Admiral Frank Bradley while previously saying he watched the strikes live. Senator Angus King cited the Department of Defense Law of War Manual and stated that killing shipwreck survivors and following such orders constitute clear violations and war crimes.
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