A U.S. navy admiral told lawmakers on Thursday that there was no "kill them all" order from Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, but grave questions and concerns remain as Congress scrutinizes an attack that killed two survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters near Venezuela.

Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley "was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all. He was given an order that, of course, was written down in great detail," Sen. Tom Cotton, who heads the Senate intelligence committee, said as he exited a classified briefing in Washington, D.C.

Cotton defended the attack, but Democrats who also were briefed and saw video of the survivors being killed questioned the Trump administration's rationale and said the incid

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