The Armed Services and Intelligence Committees for both the U.S. House and the Senate were briefed Thursday by a Navy admiral about the “double tap” strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat September 2.

Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley told members that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not issue any order that all aboard the vessel be killed. Congressman Bill Huizenga tells us he’s not concerned the defense secretary acted illegally.

“Some of those early media stories about how this was ordered by Secretary Hegseth have been debunked now,” Huizenga said. “The New York Times has debunked it. Washington Post has gone back and backtracked on much of this.”

More broadly, Huizenga says he’s attended meetings that reviewed documents related to the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean.

“So I can’t talk necessarily about all of the details, but I can tell you this, that I came out of there thoroughly convinced that this is not just willy-nilly. It is very targeted. They are not just striking at every boat that’s coming out of the region or the area.”

Huizenga calls the alleged drug boats a “scourge.”

The briefing by Admiral Bradley on Thursday came as Congress scrutinizes the September attack in international waters and lawmakers were shown video of the incident. Despite Admiral Bradley’s briefing, Democratic lawmakers say they remain deeply concerned by the second strike.