When images from the event circulated globally, Hegseth's aides complained internally about how the defense secretary looked in the photographs, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, Two people familiar with the decision spoke anonymously to the newspaper out of fear of retaliation, and said some staffers found the pictures unflattering.
MS NOW's Morning Joe crew warned that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have put himself in dangerous legal peril by bragging about a strike mission on a suspected narco-trafficking boat after reports he ordered SEAL Team 6 to kill everybody aboard and then allegedly struck survivors in the water. The Washington Post reported Sunday that the September mission, part of a Trump administration push against Venezuelan drug routes, escalated after a drone spotted two survivors clinging to the wreckage, prompting a second strike.
Maybe the policy should look like the White House or other military installations where you have to wear a badge that identifies that you're press, or you can't just roam anywhere you want. It used to be, Mr. President, the press could go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world.