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Hegseth Says He Did Not Give Order to Kill Survivors of Boat Strike
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1:18Now PlayingDefense 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. Hegseth says that commander made the right call.
“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,” Hegseth said at the White House on Tuesday.
The Trump administration has been criticized after the Washington Post said Hegseth gave an order to kill everyone on the boat. The Post said the second strike was ordered after it was clear there were survivors.
The White House, the Pentagon and Hegseth have pushed back against the Post reporting. Trump said on Sunday that Hegseth told him he had never given an order to kill everyone on the boat. Of any confusion or criticism of the attack, Hegseth said “this is called the fog of war.”
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