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Hegseth Committed War Crime in Venezuela, Vindman Says
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1:32Now PlayingRet. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman tells Joe Mathieu that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has "committed a war crime" regarding a September attack on an alleged drug-running boat.
The White House earlier today denied that Hegseth had given an order to kill everyone on the vessel, rebutting a report that had led to allegations of possible war crimes.
The White House defended the Pentagon's handling of a September attack on an alleged drug-running boat and denied that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given an order to kill everyone on the vessel.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the order for the second strike came from US Navy Admiral Frank Bradley and that the actions were lawful amid a deadly domestic opioid crisis in the US.
Bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate armed services committees said they would investigate reports of the second strike, with Senator Roger Wicker stating that they would talk to the admiral in charge and investigate the facts.
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