Senior members of the House of Representatives and Senate armed services committees received a classified briefing from Navy Admiral Frank Bradley on Thursday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized Bradley to order a follow-up strike on survivors of the first attack on a suspected drug boat in September. The legality of this second strike is under scrutiny.
We speak with Rachel VanLandingham, a former military lawyer and current law professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, about whether Bradley’s reasoning for issuing the second strike was lawful.
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