Hello and welcome to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, December 2nd.

I'm Andrew Wiseman, and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord.

And I'm going to say hello, Mary, and then I'm going to skip all the chit-chat because we have a really special guest.

So in a rare display of self-control, I'm turning it over to you so that we can get to him.

And I will try to exhibit the same self-control.

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving and at least a slight break from the news.

We will, as Andrew just forecasted, we will be joined this morning and spent the better part of the

episode with my colleague at Georgetown Law, Todd Huntley, a former judge advocate general,

and I'll give a full introduction. And we will walk through the legality or more significantly,

the illegality of what we learned about the day after Thanksgiving, which is that

not only have there been the strikes in the Caribbean that we've been talking about multiple

times, but that on that first strike that killed 11 people, not everyone was killed on the first

strike. There were two survivors clinging to the wreckage of the boat and an order was given for a second strike to kill those survivors.

And we will talk about that situation, which is very significant in terms of its failure to comply with the law of war, domestic law, etc.

And it is actually finally getting a real response, a bipartisan response from

members of Congress, which I think is important and it's about time. We will also, of course,

talk briefly about the tragic shooting, the day before Thanksgiving right here in Washington,

D.C. of two National Guard members and what that has now precipitated in terms of actions by the

administration to really, really limit and pause all kinds of policies related to asylum

seekers and those here on green cards from certain countries, etc. And we will end our

episode by talking briefly about the very

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