"Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough raged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was making sh*t up every day has the administration floats totally insane spin to explain the multiple strikes leveled at a suspected narco-trafficking boat in September. During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Hegseth blamed the fog of war for a double tap strike on the vessel that reportedly killed two survivors of the initial attack on September 2."
"The scope of criticism around this specific attack, however, has now widened into concerns about the policy as a whole, which has seen more than a dozen strikes on boats along smuggling routes allegedly used by Venezuelan drug cartels. Scarborough began Morning Joe on Thursday by pointing out that multiple conservative pundits have been critical of the strikes on boats."
Pete Hegseth attributed a September double-tap strike on a suspected narco-trafficking boat to the fog of war after reports that a follow-up attack killed two survivors. The follow-up strike has prompted accusations of a potential war crime and demands for clarity on who ordered the second strike and when. Criticism has expanded beyond the specific incident to challenge a broader maritime interdiction policy that has resulted in more than a dozen strikes along smuggling routes allegedly used by Venezuelan drug cartels. Conservative legal experts and senior military lawyers have expressed serious legal and ethical concerns about the operation.
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