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White House Defends Second Deadly Strike on Drug Boat
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0:32Now PlayingThe White House defended the Pentagon’s handling of a September attack on an alleged drug-running boat and denied that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given an order to kill everyone on the vessel, rebutting a report that had led to allegations of possible war crimes.
"President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war," Leavitt said.
Leavitt says there were two strikes on the boat on Sept. 2, and they were legal. She also said the order for the second strike came from US Navy Admiral Frank Bradley and not Hegseth.
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