A Navy admiral at the center of a deadly strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat told lawmakers Thursday there was no order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill them all,” but members of Congress left a series of classified briefings divided over what they saw on video of the attack.

Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met behind closed doors with key House and Senate committees to discuss the Sept. 2 strike near Venezuela, including a follow-up attack that killed two survivors after the initial missile hit, per The Associated Press .

Bradley “was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after the briefing,

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