Washington — Scrutiny over the Trump administration's strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats has intensified following the revelation that the first U.S. attack on such a vessel involved at least two strikes, according to a Washington Post report. It said that after a first strike left two survivors, a subsequent strike — or strikes — killed them.

As the US military’s September strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has come under increased scrutiny by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and military legal experts, the Trump administration’s explanation has shifted.

The Trump administration is laying responsibility for a second strike that killed survivors on Bradley rather than on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force.

"The Daily Show" laid into Pete Hegseth and his response to the boat strike scandal by slamming him as "the Secretary of Defensiveness."

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are demanding answers about reports of an alleged war crime committed at the outset of the boat-strike campaign by American special forces. The controversy has put America’s secretary of war,

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