WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday escalated their demands that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth publicly release an unedited video of a controversial follow-on strike by U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea that killed two shipwrecked survivors.

The Sept. 2 strike has drawn scrutiny and questions over Hegseth’s role in ordering a commander to launch additional ammunition to kill two men clinging to the wreckage of an alleged drug smuggling boat after an initial strike left the vessel in flames.

“Why wouldn’t they release it? They were so excited, the Department of Defense and Pete Hegseth, so excited to release all those videos until this part, and then, ‘Oh no, we can’t release that,’” Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., told States Newsroom.

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