Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday for his role in the controversy surrounding the strike on a suspected Venezuelan narco-terrorist cartel boat on Sept. 2. 

The controversy stems from the alleged “double-tap” strike, an order given to kill people aboard the boat who survived the first attack on the suspected drug-trafficking vessel. The Washington Post initially broke the story about the alleged decision to kill the remaining survivors from the military operation. Paul blasted Hegseth’s account of the incident and seemed to imply the war secretary was being less than candid with the facts.