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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he did not see two survivors on an alleged drug boat

struck in the Caribbean.

But NPR's Frank Ordonez reports, Hexeth says

the Admiral made the correct decision to sink the boat. Speaking at a White House cabinet

meeting, the Defense Secretary said that he had authorized Admiral Frank Bradley to execute

the operation, but that he himself was not in the room when the second strike occurred.

I watched that first strike lot. As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of

things to do. So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the

sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting.

The original attack killed nine people on the boat,

leaving two survivors, who, according to the Washington Post, were clinging to the boat.

Hegsath said he learned later of the additional strike, killing the survivors. An act that critics

say in a time of war would constitute a war crime. Franco, Ordojones, NPR News, the White House.

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