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Report: "Pete Hegseth is under increasing fire for a double-tap strike... in which the US military killed two survivors of the Trump administration’s initial boat strike in the Caribbean on September 2."
Reportedly, Hegseth personally ordered the second strike, saying " Kill everybody.”
"Hegseth’s actions could result in the entire chain of command being investigated for a war crime or outright murder."
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#Hegseth #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #USWarCrimes #Trump .
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
The statement to which Parnas is referring above (/8) is "Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon 'No Quarter' Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes." This document is linked below. It says,
"The bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are
'patently illegal,' anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both."
"Trump claims these murderboat operations combat drug trafficking. That was always suspect. Not only are many of the people killed at most low-level shippers, but killing traffickers was less useful than capturing them.
And Trump’s promise to pardon former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was a major drug trafficker, suggests Trump is not so much opposed to drug trafficking, he just wants a cut."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder
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emptywheel.net/2025/11/29/murd…
Murder - emptywheel
We don't know why Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly targeted two members of West Virginia's National Guard, just like we don't know the real reason Pete Hegseth keeps targeting boats for murder in the Caribbean.emptywheel
"Today, a group of former military lawyers concluded that Pete Hegseth has committed war crimes or murder, and that anyone who assisted in his illegal strikes in the southern Caribbean may also be implicated. At the same time, a Congressional inquiry led by a Republican has opened into Hegseth just as Trump pushes America closer to armed conflict in Venezuela."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder
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NEWS: Group of Military Lawyers Conclude Hegseth Committed War Crimes, Murder, or Both
A group of former military lawyers have concluded, in a new statement, that Hegseth and anyone under him, have committed war crimes, murder, or both.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"Even if you were to buy into the regime’s claims that they are conducting these killings to root out drug traffickers who cause harm to Americans, Trump utterly belied that argument yesterday by providing a full pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who has been serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking."
~ Steven Beschloss
“'The Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump,' [former White House lawyer Ty] Cobb said in an interview broadcast on MSNow, adding that the president’s recent actions reflected 'a desire to accumulate and abuse power.'”
'He’s committing war crimes in Venezuela and Colombia,' Cobb said, asserting that military legal officers who raised concerns 'were fired or sidelined.'”
~ Brian Daitzman
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder
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Ex-Trump Lawyer: 'The Constitution Is Not Adequate to Contain a President as Evil as Trump'
Ty Cobb warns Trump is not merely incompetent but, in his words, ‘evil,’ and driven by a desire to accumulate and abuse power.The Intellectualist (Lincoln Square)
"Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing."
~ Ryan Goodman, NYU School of Law Professor, quoted by Ed Mazza
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela
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'Textbook War Crime': Critics Slam Hegseth For 'Outright Murder' After Shock Report
Observers say a new report in the Washington Post details potentially illegal activity by the defense secretary.Ed Mazza (HuffPost)
"As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water."
"The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the [Venezuelan] boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. 'The order was to kill everybody,' one of them said."
~ Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima
#Hegseth Is Purging #Military Leaders With Little Explanation
The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.
#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth has fired or sidelined at least 2 dozen generals & admirals over the past 9 months in a series of ousters that could reshape the US military for years to come.
#NationalSecurity #MilitaryReadiness #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
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