Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could face criminal liability for a strike on a boat in the Caribbean in September, legal experts have told TIME, as lawmakers announced a rare bipartisan investigation of the incident in which 11 people were allegedly killed in two separate strikes.

The September 2 strikes, among the first in the Trump Administration’s months-long bombing campaign against what it claims are drug-trafficking boats operating in the Caribbean, were carried out by SEAL Team 6 at the orders of Hegseth, according to a Washington Post investigation .

“The order was to kill everybody,” a person with direct knowledge of the operation reportedly told the Post , adding that the order was given verbally. In an effort to comply with that order, the commanding officer of the o

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