Name: Ex-JAG Officer: Hegseth not being in room for strikes is hard to believe
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There's a lot of deflection going on there.

Adverbs of degree

Just his body language as he talks about this.

And then he uses the term fog of war as if that absolves you from responsibility.

This is the opening strike on a highly controversial air campaign that has never really been done before by the American military.

And you have the Secretary of Defense saying that he, he didn't stick around for the whole strike.

He had a meeting to go to and he couldn't see the entire thing through.

You can push the meeting and you can stay for the strike.

Because lo and behold, conveniently, at the very moment that he walks out, apparently a war crime occurs.

So everything that he just said there in those clips is fascinating.

First of all, any, I guess, defense or other narrative that this boat was still operable is gone because Secretary Hegseth just said it was on fire.

And you have the President of the United States saying something that you would expect the President of the United States to say, which is that he's relying on his Secretary of Defense for this information.

Pete Hexseth doesn't have that information for you because he walked out of the room.

And now there's a four star general with a highly respectable career in the special operations community.

Yeah, I mean, it does seem like they really are throwing him under the bus.

Let me just read what George Will, a conservative columnist, said about this whole thing.

He says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal without a war.

The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans.

A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself, I would have expected.

Despite the there's all this back and forth about who ordered it, who didn't.

They're in that room, they're asked about it, we know there's a second strike.

Why didn't either one of those men say, we're going to look into this?

Something like that should never happen in an engagement by the United States military.

Why, Abby, I can't even understand any of this Venezuela thing.

Look, Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez before him are corrupt, sadistic, cruel thieves, authoritarian, anti American son of a bitch.

And what Donald Trump is doing is attempting regime change.

I will be incredibly happy, elated, if Nicolas Maduro goes away.

But the things that Donald Trump is claiming regarding Venezuela that they are flooding the US with drugs.

The fentanyl that is killing all of these Americans is coming through Mexico, the people that the preferred route for drug dealers is through the Pacific and then through Central America, including the country of Honduras, where he just pardoned the former president that did flood American streets with cocaine that killed thousands and thousands of Americans.

And then, you know, he's claiming that Venezuela opened up prisons and insane asylums and released all these people into the United States.

That actually did happen, and it happened in 1980 in Cuba, and we all saw it happen.

I was in Miami when the Mariel boat lift happened.

There is zero evidence that that has happened in Venezuela.

He wants his Grenada moment like Ronald Reagan did.

But he can't say that his regime changed, one, because it's highly unpopular with the American people and because, two, it would require the authorization of.

Well, and we're not even close operationally, right?

we've already got a war crime, you know, national embarrassment on our hands.

We haven't even proceeded with the actual land operations.

Of the US Navy arsenal is off the coast for some kilos of cocaine?

I mean, I think one of the big question marks here is, is this a pretext for regime change?

And if it is, what is our level of engagement going to be in that?

I think those are really important questions for Americans who care, you know, if they're on those battleships in the Caribbean, if they are living.

There are many Americans in the Caribbean who could be, you know, in the area.

As Trump has said, the airspace around Venezuela is closed.

So don't we, don't we deserve answers on some of those things?

Even on a basic level, don't we deserve answers about who these men were?

If he knew exactly what they were and what they were doing, don't we deserve answers about that?

I definitely want to know if regime change is happening, and

I will be very angry if it happens and I was not informed.

So the answer to all those questions, I always want more information, but

I feel like we're in the midst of another Russiagate hoax.

There was a group of Democrats who said, you can refuse illegal orders, and

now they are out there in search of a war crime, and they're absolutely isn't one.

So what happened was the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a classified legal opinion authorizing these U.S.

I guess I have to call it war, issued the directive that we were going to start hitting them.

At that point, Admiral Bradley gave the order for the first strike.

Now, in order to establish that a war crime happened, we have to know that the boat was completely destroyed.

The military action which was authorized by the DOJ under Article 2 powers, which Trump has the legal right to issue, that that boat was destroyed was no longer a threat and that there were two people clinging to it for life who are also no longer a threat.

We do have a job lawyer who has a lot of experience with military.

Because it's only disabled and not destroyed, it is still a leg.

If there are survivors clinging to whatever, is it legal to then strike them again?

And maybe we don't know the full answer to that question, but that is the central issue here.

The whole thing hangs on whether still a military target or not.

The issue when it comes to the military target, they were legality on it when they hit it the first time.

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