Legal and Ethical Concerns - The Trump administration faced legal setbacks, including a failure to reindict the New York Attorney General, indicating potential legal vulnerabilities [1][2] - Allegations of war crimes have emerged concerning a deadly boat strike, with experts suggesting potential violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice [4][5] - Conflicting narratives and demands for transparency surround the boat strike incident, particularly regarding the timeline and the order to "kill everybody" [3][7][10] - A Democratic congressman described video evidence of the second strike as depicting the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors, raising serious ethical questions [8][9] - The Pentagon faces demands to release the unedited video of the strikes, highlighting concerns about transparency and accountability in military operations [14] - The rules of engagement and the plan for dealing with survivors are under scrutiny, particularly regarding the legality of attacking survivors who may have been communicating with suspected cartel members [16][17] - Experts emphasize that executing survivors violates international law and human rights principles, potentially undermining the US's moral standing and the protection of its own soldiers [18][19] Transparency and Accountability - Admiral Bradley testified on Capitol Hill, providing information about the second strike, but discrepancies exist between his account and that of Secretary Hegsth regarding the timeline [6][8][10][11][12] - Secretary Hegsth's reluctance to provide a clear timeline for the strikes suggests potential evasiveness or legal concerns [13] - A watchdog report on Secretary Hegsth's intelligence errors in Signalgate revealed policy violations that potentially endangered service members [21][22]

redacted version. Today I read a a a secret no foreign version which means that the information in that report including information that the pres that the secretary of defense released would be severely damaging to US national security if it was released. And in the aftermath of the signal gate, the release of those text messages, I spoke to a mother down in Fredericksburg in my district in Virginia who was the mother of a pilot that was in the skies over Yemen during that time.And I tell you, she was abso ...

the worst secretary of defense in history, and I think that's unquestionable, is having the worst week of his career. And that, my friends, is saying something. I mean, do you remember how back in March, BEX has somehow somehow accidentally added a journalist to a group chat on Signal about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.And I mean, not just any journalist, the editor of The Atlantic, who has covered national security issues forever. Well, tomorrow the Pentagon Inspector General report on that incident ...

So, big question here in DC and around the country. Did the United States commit a war crime. Let's get up to speed here.In September, the US struck an alleged Venezuelan drug boat. This was the first of many attacks against what the White House says are drug carrying boats that pose a massive threat to folks in the United States. And it's worth noting the White House hasn't provided evidence of those allegations.Now, jump to last Friday when the Washington Post reported that there was a second strike on th ...

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joining us, constitutional law professor and Yale Law School, uh at Yale Law School, Jed Rubenfeld. Uh Jed, really good to have you. Um let's talk first, >> let's talk first about the the second strike before we get into the broader operation.Um the Secretary of Defense says nothing. there was no wrongdoing here, that this was well within the commander's authority to do in his judgment, and he needs to be able to make those judgment calls because these are, in his words, naroterrorists who are coming in to ...

Pete Hegseth, who won over Trump by defending troops accused of war crimes, is now at the center of a debate about whether a September strike against a suspected drug boat amounts to a war crime https://t.co/f2hTWZtTXp ...

Potential War Crime Investigation - Allegations of a second strike on a drug boat, potentially targeting survivors, raise concerns of a war crime if proven true [1][10] - The Armed Services Committees in both the Senate and the House are expected to conduct a full investigation into the incident [2] - The investigation aims to determine the facts of the event and hold individuals accountable if a war crime occurred [3] Congressional Concerns and Actions - Concerns exist regarding the pace of investigations due to the limited remaining weeks in the year [5] - There is a sense among members of Congress that this situation is different from previous incidents [7][8] - Some members believe the overall military action in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific is being conducted improperly [9] Transparency and Information Access - There are calls for the release of films and audio tapes related to the strikes to the American public [13][14] - Immediate transparency is urged, separating the release of this specific incident's information from the broader investigation [15] - The delay in releasing information is reportedly causing allies, such as the United Kingdom, to pull back on intelligence sharing [16][17]

Amid bipartisan scrutiny and calls for congressional investigations, the Trump administration confirmed yesterday that the US military did in fact launch a second follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in September. White House press secretary Caroline Levit said that Admiral Frank M. Bradley ordered the double tap attack, killing two people who had survived the first blast, but she insisted the Navy commander acted within his authority and the law to do so. Does the administration deny that that second s ...

The Washington Post broke the news reporting defense secretary Pete Hexathth gave a spoken directive according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. The order was to kill everybody. One of them said two people with direct knowledge of the operation. That means they are inside the defense department watching Pete Hegsath. They are like the helicopter pilot flying over the Mai massacre and knowing that he had to do something, knowing that what he saw happening on the ground was a crime, knowin ...