Legal experts are challenging the Trump administration's basis for a series of lethal strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean, warning that the operations may violate both domestic and international law.
The scrutiny intensified after The Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal directive to "kill everybody" during the first strike on Sept. 2. Two survivors were reportedly clinging to debris when a second strike killed them. The White House has acknowledged the follow-up strike but says it was "within the law." Hegseth has denied issuing an order for no survivors.
