Hegseth Defends Second Drug Boat Strike as 'Fog of War'
December 3, 2025
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as posted by the channelDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wasn’t watching when a top US admiral ordered a second strike on an alleged drug-running boat on Sept. 2, which prompted accusations of possible war crimes.
“As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do, so I didn’t stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs,” he said.
Of any confusion or criticism of the attack, Hegseth said “this is called the fog of war.”
“This is what you and the press don’t understand,” Hegseth said as Trump looked on. “You sit in your air conditioned offices, you’re up on Capitol Hill, and you nitpick.”
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