Hegseth Could Face War Crime Raps for Kill Order on Survivors

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could face a war crimes prosecution over allegations that he ordered a second strike to kill survivors of a missile attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

The second video showed two survivors being blasted out of the water by a second missile. (Photo: U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech, U.S. Secretary of War Flickr) 

According to The Washington Post, the Pentagon chief insisted that all 11 people on board the boat should be killed. “The order was to kill everybody,” claimed two people with direct knowledge of the SEAL Team 6 operation targeting the waterborne drug smugglers.

Reporting for Mediaite, Ahmad Austin Jr. wrote that the possible war crime occurred during the first strike on the alleged “narco boat” on Sept. 2. Trump showed reporters only the video of the first strike.

The second video, however, showed two survivors being blasted out of the water by a second missile. Hegseth’s alleged order is patently illegal and should have been ignored by SEAL Team 6.