What happened

The White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday said Navy Vice Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley ordered a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September, not Hegseth.

The initial strike killed nine people on the boat, and when live video of the attack showed two survivors “clinging to the smoldering wreck,” Bradley ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s verbal command to “ kill everybody ,” and the “two men were blown apart in the water,” The Washington Post reported Friday, setting off a furor in Washington and bipartisan congressional investigations into potential war crimes.

Who said what

Hegseth “authorized” Bradley, now head of U.S. Special Operations Command, to “conduct these kinetic strikes” and the admiral “wor

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