Adm. Frank M. "Mitch" Bradley was reportedly the commander who oversaw the mission and allegedly justified the second strike by saying survivors could have called other drug traffickers to retrieve the two remaining survivors and any leftover cargo.

Protocols supposedly were altered following this incident in September, directing U.S. military to rescue survivors rather than kill them. In a strike on October 16 in the Caribbean, two men who survived a strike were captured and later sent to Ecuador and Colombia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803917&forum_id=2.#49469293)