The U.S. Congress is poised to give the Trump administration’s military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats more scrutiny than at any point since the start of the operation off the South American coast.

Both the U.S. House and Senate committees on armed services have announced they’ll look into allegations that two shipwrecked survivors of an initial strike in the Caribbean in early September were killed in a second targeted attack.

Republican and Democratic members of the committees have said if it’s accurate that a strike was ordered on people who were defenceless after their boat had already been destroyed, the order could have been illegal, or even a war crime.

Defence Secretary Pe te Hegseth dismissed the allegation when it was first reported by the Washington Post la

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