White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.

The White House on Monday shifted the blame for killing the survivors of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and onto the commanding admiral.

Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, nevertheless, repeatedly stated that it was legal – even as she further claimed, as Donald Trump did Sunday, that Hegseth was unaware that it had happened.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.

    RTFM

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
        1·
        59 minutes ago

        That’s like what my understanding of fubar was, face unrecognizable, belay any response.

        Thanks Dad.

        Combined with a pretty bad case of face blindness led me to telling a fellow classmate a professor was “fubar” in public…