The Pentagon Press Secretary confirmed that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth endorses a strike in the Caribbean against two men who survived an American attack on their boat. Experts have said the strike is a war crime.
When asked about a September 2 secondary strike on a drug boat, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson explained, “The Secretary (Hegseth) has been very clear in every statement that we have released about these strikes that they are Presidentially directed and the chain of command functions as it should… At the end of the day, the Secretary and the President are the ones directing these strikes and any follow-on strikes like those directed by Admiral Bradley, the Secretary 100% agrees with.”
BREAKING: The Pentagon just blew up the White House’s entire cover story.
Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson openly confirmed that the Caribbean strikes,including the follow-on strike that hit survivors, were “presidentially directed” and fully backed by Pete Hegseth.
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The strike has become a major issue for the White House after the Washington Post reported that the US initially targeted a boat carrying 11 alleged drug traffickers. After the first strike, surveillance showed two survivors clinging to the wreckage.
Acting on orders from War Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill everybody,” a second strike was ordered, killing two survivors.
As the men were no longer a threat, the second strike is a clear war crime.
The White House has also faced accusations that all the strikes on the nearly two dozen drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are illegal and unconstitutional. Senator Rand Paul has slammed the strikes, which have killed over 80 people, as extrajudicial killings.
