Washington Congressman Adam Smith said he is set to meet this week with the admiral at the center of a controversial U.S. military strike on a suspected drug‑smuggling boat.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley gave the order for a second strike on the boat on September 2. The Washington Post reports the second strike killed two survivors seen clinging to the wreckage of the vessel.

“Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat,” Hegseth said.

Smith took issue with that.

“The law of war is that you cannot kill people who are no longer a threat,” Smith said. “And clearly, two wounded people clinging to a sinking boat — there is no plausible argument for how those two people are a threat.”

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