Senator Tom Cotton has a message for anyone troubled by U.S. military strikes that killed survivors clinging to a capsized boat: relax, they were moving around.

In an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press," Cotton defended the September 2 "double tap" strike that killed survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat. His argument? "They were not in the water, surviving only because they had a life jacket or hanging to a plank of wood. They were sitting on that boat. They were clearly moving around on it."

Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, alleged the survivors appeared to try flipping the capsized vessel — "presumably to rescue its cargo and continue their mission." Therefore, he concluded, "It is in no way a violation of the law of war." 10

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