Both the House and the Senate Armed Services committees said separately that they would conduct “oversight” into the circumstances around the strikes.

Both the House and the Senate have started inquiries into a reported second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September that killed the survivors of an initial strike.

The Defense Department conducted a second strike on a boat the Trump administration says was carrying drugs from Venezuela after the first strike on the boat failed to kill all of its occupants, one U.S. official and a source familiar with the Pentagon’s actions that day told NBC News.

The first of the two strikes conducted on Sept. 2 left at least two survivors, the officials said. The second strike killed the remaining survivors, according to the officials.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    look hegseth, I like a drink too, and guys like us know that when you get a whiskey you say “make it a double”. But maybe leave that kind of talk outside the situation room

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      Also ya know, he maybe should stop considering nixon a role model. Sure he knew his way around a spirit, but you gotta show up to work sober and quit with the war crimes and the whole using the military against civilians thing. It’s not just fireable and hanging offenses, it’s also loser shit.