Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) reacted to the White House confirming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized the follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September by calling it “incompetence at the highest level.”

Host Jake Tapper said, “They confirmed the double tap strike today, the White House, even though two days ago, Sean Parnell at the Pentagon was saying the entire story was fabricated, made up out of whole cloth. It seems as though they’re saying that Hegseth, gave the order to kill everyone on board a lethal strike and that Admiral Mitch Bradley was in charge. He’s the head of Special Forces, and that he is the one that gave the order for the second strike, the double tap on the survivors that were there. Who is ultimately responsib

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