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The SASC's statement promising "vigorous oversight" into Pete Hegseth's
boat strikes. Senate Armed Services Committee
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that on Sept. 2, Pete Hegseth
ordered that the U. S. military kill everyone on board a boat suspected of carrying narcotics off the coast of Trinidad.
A missile struck the vessel and killed nine of the eleven people aboard the ship. When the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack realized there were two survivors in the water, he fired a second shot to comply
with Hegseth's order, killing the remaining survivors.
The order may amount to a war crime-and therefore punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or death, per the U. S. 's definition of war crimes, which
can apply to U. S. nationals and armed service members.
Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer, told the Post that the attack
"amounts to murder, " because Venezuela and the U. S. are not in an armed conflict.
The order to kill everyone on board "would in essence be an order to show
no quarter, which would be a war crime, " he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/pete-hegseth-accused-of-unambiguous-war- crime-after-new-report/ar-AA1Rm0Cl
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