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Trump administration refuses to say whether survivors on suspected drug-trafficking vessels posed imminent threat
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The White House has confirmed that the admiral overseeing U.S. military operations against alleged drug-carrying boats had issued the order for a second strike that killed two survivors, an attack that has intensified legal scrutiny into the Trump administration’s lethal campaign.
