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\n President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sought to distance themselves from the decision to launch a follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean<\/a>, insisting they weren\u2019t aware of what the military had done after the first strike didn\u2019t kill everyone on board.\n <\/p>\n

\n During a Cabinet meeting, Trump told reporters that he was not consulted ahead of time, and that even months after the strikes, he had not yet been fully briefed on the circumstances surrounding them.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know about the second strike. I didn\u2019t know anything about the people,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t involved, and I knew they took out a boat, but I would say this, they had a strike.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump added that he was relying on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to keep him apprised of the situation, and that Hegseth was \u201csatisfied\u201d with the September attack<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Hegseth on Tuesday also denied any direct role in targeting the survivors, saying he\u2019d empowered Adm. Frank M. \u201cMitch\u201d Bradley to make all of the operational decisions \u2014 and had left the room well before it became clear that some of the people on the boat had survived.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI watched that first strike live,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cI didn\u2019t 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.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The defense secretary did not learn about the second strike, he added, until hours later.\n <\/p>\n

\n Both Trump and Hegseth defended Bradley\u2019s actions as correct and within the administration\u2019s legal authority, with Hegseth vowing that the administration would \u201chave his back.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPresident Trump has empowered commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark and difficult things in the dead of night,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

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\n But the efforts to place responsibility for the second strike solely on Bradley, the commander of US Special Operations Command, come amid intensifying scrutiny from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle<\/a> over the legality of the strike. Some have even suggested that it amounts to a war crime<\/a>. And Trump has said previously he \u201cwouldn\u2019t have wanted that, not a second strike.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Hegseth\u2019s account on Tuesday also raised questions about his initial description of the strike in its immediate aftermath, when he said on Fox News that \u201cI watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew exactly what they were doing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n GOP Sen. Roger Wicker, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, has pledged \u201cvigorous oversight\u201d of the decision-making following initial reporting from The Washington Post<\/a> and CNN that the military had killed survivors in a follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean in September. The committee has since demanded the full audio and video of the attack as part of its investigation.\n <\/p>\n

\n Democrats have long criticized the administration\u2019s operations in the Caribbean as reckless and unwarranted, arguing that Trump has overstated the threat posed by the alleged drug vessels and offered little evidence that any of the dozens killed in the strikes<\/a> so far warranted such action.\n <\/p>\n

\n But the decision to launch a second strike on survivors prompted a broader, bipartisan swath of lawmakers to call for oversight and accountability over the incident. Several have warned that such actions would go beyond what they view as the acceptable bounds of the administration\u2019s offensive in the Caribbean.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Some alleged, too, the administration was not being forthcoming. Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m very suspicious that they\u2019ve never shared that tape with us and that they are consciously trying to cover up what took place.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump on Tuesday repeatedly defended his administration\u2019s overall operations in the Caribbean as necessary to counter drug traffickers, even as he professed ignorance about the particulars of the September strike.\n <\/p>\n

\n The president also signaled he planned to soon authorize strikes on targets inside of Venezuela, a move that would represent a significant escalation of an offensive that has for now been confined to international waters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to start doing those strikes on land too,\u201d Trump said, adding that it would be \u201cmuch easier\u201d to target alleged traffickers within the country and refusing to rule out targeting people in other countries if the administration determined they were trafficking drugs into the US.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Hegseth \u2014 who initially derided the reports of a follow-up strike as \u201cfake\u201d before the administration officially acknowledged that it occurred \u2014 lashed out again Tuesday at reporting of the decision-making, calling scrutiny of the second strike \u201creally irresponsible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But he quickly made clear again that when it came down to it, the decision was not his.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI did not personally see survivors, because the thing was on fire. It was exploded in fire and smoke,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cThis is called the fog of war.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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