This editorial was originally published by The Wall Street Journal and was distributed by The Associated Press.

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Congress is mostly a media circus these days, so credit the members who take their duties seriously. Lawmakers are doing a public service by trying to get to the truth on whether the Trump administration killed defenseless survivors of a drug-boat strike.

The controversy involves a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that no one survive a Sept. 2 missile strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. The story cites unidentified sources claiming that the U.S. military, on Hegseth’s orders, conducted a second strike to finish off survivors clinging to the destroyed boat.

Hegseth called the story “fabricated, inflammatory and derogatory,” an

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