"And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...
This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."
"And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.
Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."
"Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.
Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”
While Rep. Himes of Connecticut says that the video of the murder of two men clinging to the remains f a bot was "one of the most troubling things" he'd seen, Arkansas Sen. Cotton says it was "righteous." to which Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last respond with mockery:
"Righteous! Righteous! We must kill 'em! Kill 'em all!"
Some people have moral compasses. Others don't, sadly.
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
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