Not sure if this story was covered here yet, but if true, it's a bombshell and totally redeems the Kelly video;

[D. Spaulding]

From Rawstory;

'Premeditated murder': Pete Hegseth accused of 'unambiguous war crime' after new report

New reporting shows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have violated U.S. and international law by ordering a follow-up attack on two survivors in the administration's controversial missile strikes on alleged drug smugglers.

President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief ordered the Sept. 2 strike off the Trinidad coast, but drone footage showed two survivors clinging to the wreckage after the smoke cleared – and the Washington Post reported that Hegseth gave a second verbal directive to "kill everybody."

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-war-crime-premeditated/

Hegseth is unqualified garbage.

[canetoad]

1. If true

This has broken all sorts of maritime laws as well. It's a DUTY to rescue at sea.

[Traildogbob]

2. Can we

Just turn over Noem, Miller, and Kegsbreath to international prisons and maybe have Jack Smith prosecute them for multiple murders. PPV.
I pray for the day they are shackled, in prison orange, as they shuffle into court for trial with the ultimate sentence. Life without plastic, hair gel or spray, on 24/7 video feed to watch them suffer. All in the same cell with two bunks and a gender neutral toilet.
Watch Noem melt like her South Park fill in, to where bot even her two bunk mates wanna touch or see her.

[Ars Longa]

6. No Hair Extensions??

[Traildogbob]

9. Or highlighted tips

For Kegsbreath. And no mirrors, like the Pentagon upgrades. Just Carnival ones that warp their image even worse than they are in living color.
And only one outfit. Orange jump suit.

[calimary]

18. NOPE here, too!

[calimary]

17. NOPE!

[mercuryblues]

20. PPV would eliminate the nation dept

rung up by trump.

[BattleRow]

22. No Fox News....

[BurnDoubt]

36. ..."Til the maggots carry 'em through the keyhole!"

[Big Blue Marble]

3. It is written by the WP.

If anything, they lean towards the Administration. Someone wants Hegseth out.

[roscoeroscoe]

4. Stalking Horse

They have this never back down routine, so they're hanging Hegs out there like bait. Another chance to call critics unpatriotic. It works in MAGA world, not at all here in Earth 1.

Check out South Park's new episode!

[D. Spaulding]

5. If this is indeed true;

Even the GOP have to call for him to resign, at a minimu.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. NAZI Murderer

The Hague awaits.

[marble falls]

8. That's not "war", it is warcrimes, it is premeditated murder. How will Hogsbreath feel when an enemy orders the ...

... murder of US military wounded/prisoners?

[Attilatheblond]

27. I fear it would make Hegseth feel happy as it would give him a pretense to send in heavy bombers

and murder thousands.

He is an egocentric drunk in fear of displeasing the murderous maniac in chief and losing his cushy gig

[LaRaven]

40. Hogsbreath, Secretary of WarCrimes

[D. Spaulding]

10. Does anyone know if there's a version of the WAPO story

not behind a paywall?

[canetoad]

12. Internet archive link

https://archive.md/Dnq8a

All you need to do is copy the link to the article, in this case I obtained it from RawStory. Then go to archive.today webpage archive and paste it in. It gives you a clean, non-paywalled copy.

[D. Spaulding]

34. Thanks!

N/A

[paulkienitz]

11. If we don't prosecute Hegseth ourselves, The Hague should stick him in Slobodan Milosevic's old cell.

[orleans]

21. q: can the hague prosecute americans? no

google ai:
No, the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot prosecute Americans because the United States is not a member state of the ICC, and the ICC has no jurisdiction over the nationals of non-member states. However, there are limited circumstances where a US citizen could be prosecuted: if an American commits a crime on the territory of a member state, the ICC can have jurisdiction, notes the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.

[colorado_ufo]

33. Does a crime on International Waters come under ICC jurisdiction?

Asking for a few hundred million friends!

[soldierant]

13. Not that the Kelly video needs any redemption.

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Speaking as a veteran, it is spot on and if anything understated.

[rzemanfl]

44. Darn keys are right next to each other.

I think you meant to say "needs."

[soldierant]

46. Yeah, thanks. I do that a lot. Aometimes I catch it.

[rzemanfl]

47. I see....

[debsy]

14. We have a lawless administration overseeing our federal government.

As long as Donnie dumpster can pardon anyone he wants, they can kill anyone with no consequences. This is what happens with unchecked power. SCROTUS and the Grand Old Pricks have abdicated their responsibilities and handed our government over to a bunch of billionaire yahoos.

[Fil1957]

15. Glad this incident is getting attention, but the truth is EVERY SINGLE ATTACK off the coast of Venezuela is murder and a

war crime. Even the destruction of the submarine which likely WAS transporting drugs is murder and a war crime.

Hope he and the other sick bastards responsible for these crimes gets serious prison time. It's the only way this murderous madness is going to stop.

[gfarber]

16. Hegseth's Undoing

Reports from the coast say, in stride,
A strike left two clinging alive.
But whispers then spread
Of a follow-up said—
Just “per news accounts,” not verified.

The papers described quite a shock:
A command that could bend every law on the block.
Though all that’s been told
Is what journalists hold—
Allegations that rightly raise talk.

Drone footage, the story relates,
Showed survivors who clung to their fates.
Then a claim made in print
Cast a serious tint—
Though it’s only what one source narrates.

Off Trinidad’s coastline they say
A mission went sideways that day.
And the Post wrote a line
Of an order defined—
But again, that’s just reporting, not sway.

[BOSSHOG]

19. And let's add the issue of GIVING UNLAWFUL ORDERS

As if fucking up a minimum amount of lives isn’t enough for the convicted felon who has never had a friend in his life, has never loved anyone and views associates as ATM machines.

[NH Ethylene]

23. If true, this makes cold-blooded sense.

Any survivors could come forward and present evidence that they were just fishermen, describe the horrors of the attack, etc, which would not only be very bad publicity for the administration, but it would also put a crimp on their plans for a war against Venezuela.

[YoshidaYui]

24. Someone followed an illegal order

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Does no one listen to Malcolm Nance?

[Shipwack]

38. Are we sure the murders have been carried out by the military?

I’m thinking that these boat attacks are being done by the one of the alphabet services.

Then again, there were those enlisted men who knowingly fired drone missiles on wedding celebrations during the Afghanistan conflict.

[Amaryllis]

25. Pete Hegseth Ordered "Kill Them All" as Two People Hung From the Side of a Boat Engulfed in Flames in Caribbean

Aaron Parnas

more at link

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-pete-hegseth-ordered-kill-them?

Good afternoon, everyone. Credible reports have emerged indicating that U.S. military personnel likely violated international humanitarian law, specifically involving an alleged order by Pete Hegseth to fire on individuals in the southern Caribbean who were clinging to the side of a burning boat and posed no apparent threat to the United States.

Having spent years studying international law both as an undergraduate and in law school, I can say this with absolute clarity: if these reports are accurate, this conduct would align with what international law defines as denial of quarter, the unlawful refusal to accept the surrender of persons who are defenseless, incapacitated, or otherwise incapable of mounting a threat. In plain terms, it would constitute a war crime. And I break down exactly why.

A Washington Post report described a Caribbean operation in which U.S. surveillance tracked a boat believed to be carrying drugs; according to two individuals with direct knowledge, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a spoken directive to “kill everybody,” leading SEAL Team 6 to strike the vessel and leave no survivors, even as two men clung to the burning, disabled boat.

Experts and officials say the suspected traffickers were not engaged in any armed conflict with the United States and posed no imminent threat; therefore, according to former Special Operations legal adviser Todd Huntley, killing them outside a lawful war context “amounts to murder.”

[Seinan Sensei]

42. Hegseth, meet The Hague

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. Polluted Pete Kegsbreath is a disgrace to our country.

[Turbineguy]

28. Serial killer

Real power for Hegseth is the ability to kill.

[SCantiGOP]

29. When a title includes "but if true..."

and it comes from Rawstory, it probably shouldn’t be posted.

[sop]

31. It's being reported by WaPo, CNN, ABC and others.

[sop]

30. There's probably video/audio evidence of Hegseth watching the first strike live and giving the follow-up kill order.

[Blue Owl]

32. Send Kegsbreath to the drunk tank

The one with the iron bars, stainless,steel toilet, and no windows

[COL Mustard]

35. Maybe that's why they made the video when they did.

A lot of people were wondering what orders were illegal...Hegesth's reported "kill them all" order after the first missile strike might be the clearest example we've seen recently.

[pansypoo53219]

37. can't wait for the murder triel at the hague.

[Upthevibe]

39. Kick. N/T

[niyad]

41. May petey receive everything he deserves. Three times three.

[Jimvanhise]

43. A WAR CRIME

After World War Two people in Germany and Japan were prosecuted (and sometimes executed) for things like this.

[Mblaze]

45. Hegadeth didn't want to leave a witness

Forgetting that his own troops are witnesses.

[calimary]

48. I like how everybody's playing the "Fuck with His Name" game!