John —
The Washington Post has reported that Pete Hegseth gave an order to kill all of the occupants of the first Venezuelan boat struck in the Caribbean. Doing so required repeated attacks on the boat, even after it was destroyed and survivors were clinging to the wreckage.
If this is true, the Secretary of Defense is guilty of a war crime.
The Law of War Manual from the Department of Defense is pretty direct here: “...orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.”
It doesn’t get more cut-and-dry than that.
Up until now, there has been little appetite for bipartisan oversight of the Trump administration in Congress. Democrats have demanded it, and Republicans have been silent. That has to change, and it has to change now.
VoteVets is demanding that Congress investigate those orders.
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