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Who is telling the truth? (neither party...)
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In my opinion, the reason trump said he wouldn't have wanted a second hit is that he wants to covering his butt for any possible investigation or litigation. He'd rather Pentagon pete walk the plank. He probably slept good that night... “I wouldn’t have wanted that, not a second strike,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington. “The first strike was very lethal; it was fine. And if there were two people around … but Pete said that didn’t happen. I have great confidence in him. “I’m going to find out about it, but Pete said he did not order the death of those two men.” Admiral Frank M. Bradley
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday he believes "it's very possible there was a war crime committed" in the administration's first strike against an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea in September. "I think it's very possible there was a war crime committed. Of course, for it to be a war crime, you have to accept the Trump administration's whole construct here ... which is we're in armed conflict, at war with this particular -- with the drug gangs. Of course, they've never presented the public with the information they've got here," Van Hollen said on ABC News' "This Week." "If that theory is wrong, then it's plain murder." So if war crimes were committed, Admiral Frank M. "Mitch" Bradley and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would most likely be the two upfront characters that would be tried, I believe by a military court. However, if it is not classified as war they would be tried for murder. Others most likely would be involved... According to recent news reports based on leaked information, U.S. Navy Admiral Frank M. "Mitch" Bradley ordered a second missile strike on two survivors of an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean in September 2025. This was reportedly done to comply with a directive from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to "kill everybody" on board the vessel.
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that the body will put military officials “under oath” regarding reported follow-up strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. “We’re going to have an investigation,” Kelly told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re going to have a public hearing. We’re going to put these folks under oath. And we’re going to find out what happened. And then, there needs to be accountability.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy “illegal orders” has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts. Some say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fighter pilot. Others say the Arizona Democrat cannot be prosecuted as a member of Congress. A group of former military prosecutors insists he did nothing wrong.
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Shame on the U.S. Navy... During the 2 September operation, led by the elite counter-terrorist group Seal Team 6, a first missile strike left two survivors clinging on to the wreck, the Post reported. Adm Frank M “Mitch” Bradley, head of Special Operations Command, reportedly ordered a second strike to kill the two survivors to comply with Hegseth’s orders.
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A live drone feed showed two survivors from the original crew of 11 clinging to the wreckage of their boat following the initial missile attack on Sept. 2, The Post reported on Friday afternoon. The Special Operations commander overseeing the operation then ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation, killing both survivors. Those people, along with five others in the original report, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. Late Friday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), the committee’s ranking Democrat, issued a statement saying that the committee “is aware of recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels.”
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Shame on the U.S. Navy who executed those survivors... The U.S. Secretary of WAAH Pete Hedgehog could face a war crimes prosecution over a claim that he ordered a second strike to kill the survivors of a missile attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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"To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY," Trump said in a post. Trump's comments come about a week after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned airlines about flying over Venezuela. The FAA issued a notice urging airlines to "exercise caution" due to the "potentially hazardous situation" in the region.
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People briefed on the “double-tap” strike, said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict, which prohibits the execution of an enemy combatant who is “hors de combat,” or taken out of the fight due to injury or surrender. “They’re breaking the law either way,” said Sarah Harrison, a former associate general counsel at the Pentagon who now serves as a senior analyst at the Crisis Group think tank. “They’re killing civilians in the first place, and then if you assume they’re combatants, it’s also unlawful — under the law of armed conflict, if somebody is ‘hors de combat’ and no longer able to fight, then they have to be treated humanely.”
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trump likes to pick fights with many smaller countries... Amid a buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and strikes on alleged drug boats, President Donald Trump told U.S. troops on Thanksgiving that the military operation will soon include strikes on land.
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Tobias Barrington Wolff, a professor at The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Carey Law School with expertise in constitutional law and civil rights, told me that Kelly has fundamental legal protections he can invoke. "Sen. Kelly is a civilian and a United States senator speaking in the political arena about matters of vital public concern," Wolff emailed. "His speech is fully protected by the First Amendment, and this administration cannot use the Uniform Code of Military Justice to punish him."
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Eric Davis, an astrophysicist who was a scientific advisor on the since-disbanded Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, created by Congress in 2007 by late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), claimed that Bush confirmed to him in a private conversation details of contact between the military and an alien creature at Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County.
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And obviously an illegal order... This is blatant murder. As a nation of laws, we don’t intentionally target and kill civilians, regardless of the reasons or purported “legal” justifications. The Constitution, as well as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, demands that we don’t. Make no mistake about it: Refuse these orders and you can kiss your military career goodbye. But in my mind, the choice between a career and a human life should be a no-brainer.
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This is pure fraud and abuse of taxpayer's money... In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign.