JD Vance Sent Late-Night “U Up?” Text After Signal Messages Leaked

Before the meeting, military lawyers argued that there could be a legitimate explanation for the second strike if Bradley was able to prove that the survivors posed a credible threat to U.S. military personnel. But the images apparently left no doubt that this was not the case.

“What I saw in that room was one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my career in public service,” said Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. CNN. “You have two individuals [in] manifest distress, without any means of transport, with a destroyed ship, [who] were killed by the United States.

Himes added that his understanding of the Pentagon’s explanation was that the survivors were “in no way able to continue their mission.” He noted that Bradley had “confirmed that there was no order to kill them all, and there was no order to give no quarter,” according to CBS News.