GOP Senators Vow 'Vigorous Oversight' After Stunning Hegseth 'Kill Everybody' Report
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The Washington Post published a shock report detailing a military strike order allegedly given by the defense secretary earlier this year.
The top Republican and Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a joint statement promising to look into a report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a U.S. strike force to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug trafficking boat in September.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who is the committee chairman, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), said in a press release that the committee has “directed inquiries” to the Department of Defense and “will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”
The Washington Post published a stunning report Friday based on interviews and accounts from seven people “with knowledge of” a Sept. 2 military strike that killed 11 people on board a boat near the coast of Trinidad. Intelligence analysts suspected that the boat was smuggling drugs.
“The order was to kill everybody,” one person told the Post.
To fulfill Hegseth’s directive, Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley then ordered a second strike to kill two men in the water who had initially survived, according to the Post.
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