Senate To Launch Bipartisan Investigation Into Pete Hegseth For Potential War Crimes

The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee announced a bipartisan investigation into potential war crimes committed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Experts have been saying for months that the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats in the Caribbean were likely illegal. The situation is illegal to such a degree that US allies are refusing to share intelligence about the region with the Trump administration.

The Washington Post recently reported on an alleged fatal and potentially illegal order given by Pete Hegseth.

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The Post reported:

The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the 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.

A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. 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 administration has no congressional approval for these boat strikes. There is zero evidence that the boat that was struck in September was carrying drugs, and if it was, it represented no immediate military threat to the United States.

What Pete Hegseth ordered looks a lot like an illegal order that was a crime.

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