It seems that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in hot water for allegedly committing war crimes. It's reported that on September 2nd he ordered an additional attack (a "double-tap") to kill survivors of a boat strike. The Washington Post was the first to report on it.
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Apparently, a surveillance aircraft followed the boat, and intelligence analysts watching from command centers concluded there were 11 people on board and they were carrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive to kill them all.
A missile was launched off the Trinidad coast and it struck the boat. Commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they realized there were two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina was Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, ordered a second strike. He ordered the second strike to fulfill Hegseth’s directive that everyone must be killed. The two men were blown apart in the water. Note: There will be a separate post on Bradley.
Experts are saying that the so-called traffickers posed no threat of attack to the United States. We are not in an armed conflict or war, and that makes these acts murder. Also, even if we were at war, an order to kill survivors who are no longer able to fight, would be an order to show no quarter and that's a clear war crime.
Since that first attack, the Pentagon has hit at least 22 more boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. The Pentagon's campaign has killed more than 80 people so far. The trump administration claims their attacks in recent months are on boats allegedly carrying drugs in international waters.
A decision to fire Pete Hegseth would be up to the President and the Department of Defense.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island, senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee,) issued a statement saying that they intend to conduct oversight not just of the September 2 strike but of the entire operation. They need to hear from “we the people” on this to make sure they follow through.
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PART 3 - “Underbussing” Mitch Bradley
PART 4 - Unlawful Orders Video
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