Admiral Frank Bradley briefed lawmakers behind closed doors over his decision to strike survivors of an initial U.S. attack on an alleged drug boat. There was divided reaction among Democrats and Republicans.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year.

Even luckier, and perhaps amongst the luckiest of all unlucky drug smugglers, is 42-year-old Andres Fernando Tufino Chila of Ecuador.