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Get a load of this!!! So some drug traffickers are going to get blown to smithereens and others are going to get presidential pardons. Make that make sense. (Hint: It rhymes with “BRIBE” and the answer is “BRIBE”.) ktla.com/news/politic...

What were they afraid of that they'd find out that they were only fishermen? I bet Hegseth hit the bottle after that!

Some day, when real democrats are back in power, these people will be prosecuted for war crimes. But we need to dump the old white guys and put young progressives in power. @aoc.bsky.social

SS agent Headjob? Shocked I tell you! Drunken scum bag

@wyden.senate.gov

Donald Trump has murdered 82 civilians on international water. That is of course terrorism. The USA is a terrorist nation.

He’s almost worse than Donnie Felon. At least murderer Pete has no immunity! Arrest him !

Court martial the commander and everyone between him and Hegseth that signed off in this ullegal crap. And charge Hegseth in international court

Pete Hegseth appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, using our armed forces to conduct an extrajudicial, premeditated killing in international waters. Actions like this cannot go unanswered. The United States is supposed to be a nation governed by the rule of law.

That's a crime.

Too bad certain media sources have been complicit in enabling our fascist overlords!

That’ll follow him around like a dark cloud for the rest of his miserable life

Admiral Alvin Holsey has some explaining to do.

Those speed boats coming from 1,200 miles away to the US shores reminds me of this scene from Austin Powers

Hegseth does not have any immunity, he is committing crimes against humanity.

There’s going to be a long queue at some point in the future claiming….”I was only following orders”.

Key to our democracy is accountability. Stopping the behavior is simply not enough.

Monsters!

This is a war crime!

WaPo, thank you for this journalism. Glad to know the diminishing of the editorial pages hasn't affected the news staff.

War crimes or crimes against humanity? Zero outrage as Americans is the worst part.

He's a war lord. A strike on suspects is (attempted) murder.

For every one of these Executive Branch horror stories - GOP congresspeople (especially in contested districts) should be asked their position every time - often. None of this happens if the GOP doesn't continue to enable.

If so that is so criminal

Why is anyone surprised when almost every American politician is in the pocket of Israel, so much so they have made themselves complicit in genocide. The sooner Americans realise what they have spent decades voting for, the better for the rest of the world

Like the headline.

International war criminals

How is this not a war crime?

😡😡😡 I have no words, the monstrosity of this...

He, like the #PedoFührer, is a serial killer. His victims are not young gay men, like Jeffrey Dahmer, or prostitutes, like Jack the Ripper, but they're Brown people in boats. He belongs in prison for life with no parole.

JFC he is an absolute disgrace in all ways, shapes and forms.

Dead men tell no tales (of their innocence).

Such as "just kill them"

well well well bsky.app/profile/vant...

This is why Kegseth needs to be in shackles at the ICC being sentenced to life without parole. Everyone from him down to the criminals that pulled the trigger without refusing the illegal orders also need to DIE in prison like the Nazis before them.

Hegseth is war criminal I hope he gets prosecuted after Trump dies or resigns

Kegsbreath the 🦊🐔hawk wanted no witnesses to their crimes.

Or "murder" as we regular people call it.

Kegseth is pretty smug right now but justice will wipe that saliva right off his face

WTF are we doing here? This unqualified monster belongs in prison. Full stop.

Fucking evil bastards, the lot of them.

just think how much was lost in intelligence gather if those two were taken alive

So much for the military protecting us from abuses of the constitution.

War Criminals deserve DEATH PENALTIES, not fishermen.

He’s using the world’s most lethal military force to murder civilians so he can feel tough. To soothe his enormous insecurity. Truly wretched.

And he will keep killing until we become numb and then they will start killing us.

There’s no statute of limitations on war crimes…

War crime

Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight: “Either way, military personnel would only be covered during the current administration; a future [Office of Legal Counsel] or a federal judge could (and in my view, should) find that this practice is illegal.”

Nice to see wapo trying to be a newspaper again. This has been plainly illegal since the first reports. I hope to see the day these murderers see justice

Would really like to see someone ask Republican leaders who call themselves "Christians," like #Utah Spencer Cox, how outright murder squares with their insistence that FELON/Adjudicated RAPIST Donald J. "Bone Spurs" Trump's policies - which apparently include murder - were the best for our nation.

Looking forward to Drunk/Sexual Predator Pete Hegseth going on trial for murder, along with his boss - FELON/Adjudicated RAPIST Donald J. "Bone Spurs" Trump. All of this is about giving the extreme wealthy control of #Venezuela oil & making Americans used to seeing Trump having people killed.

tribunals

Sweet home alabama!!! Hegseth needs to be held accountable as do those who followed orders!!!

Sounds like murder to me

Hegseth and everyone who followed this blatantly illegal order should be in prison.

So much for refusing unlawful orders. When are people going to face facts that the military is compromised and always has been

dead men tell no tales.

I really wish your headlines better conveyed the depravity of this situation plus Kegsbreath's misplaced authority and utter ineptitude. These are WAR CRIMES. This was MURDER.

That is a…. **checks notes** crime against humanity.

Warcrimes and dishonorable behavior. Hesgeth is a stain upon the military forces of the USA.

Everytime theres an opinion by the 'editorial board', it's probably written by Bezos himself!

And I'm sure G.I. Joke Hegseth felt like a man, and had to run to the bathroom to aid his erection after such a power trip. That's how these emasculated psychopaths affirm themselves.

It’s not just Hegseth, the commander who carried out the second strike order is also in legal peril. There is no“ I was just following orders” excuse in the US military.

That's a war crime. Officers following that order should be court-martialed.

He's fucked when Trump loses power in 2026! 🤣

It is a war crime... unfortunately for the lower ranks. This order comes all the way from the President. Kegsbreath wouldn't be giving these orders off his own bat.

obviously

Good point. Hopeful sign?

Not stating as fact…seems like Occam’s Razor when paired with resignation of SOUTHCOM commander.

in the parlance of our time this is what you call an illegal order

Department of War Crimes

Murdered..

Crime is bad. Murder is bad. Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are murderers. If we can’t even agree that murder is bad and should be prosecuted, then what the hell Are we doing?

But Hegseths’ hair and (white) skin look fabulous and he probably smells good too. I think in this administration, these characteristics are far more important than competence, ethics or the possession of a moral compass.

Almost certainly murder, a criminal act, but the USA never supports international law as it proclaims itself exceptional. Caligula would recognise this approach to "government".

This is a war crime … thus the reason Senator Kelly and other Dems said refuse illegal orders.

Um that's fucking illegal.

So,we know that if trump orders Hegseth to kill American citizens, he would do it. Remember,when Hitler was told the War was lost, Hitler ordered his military to kill civilians. If Hitler did it, you can bet trump would do it. I hope Hitlers military refused to do it & our military would refuse too

He and Trump are both living out there leather fascist fantasies. All we need is a gimp in a rubber suit and we've seen it all. Oh wait... is that Stephen Miller in the gimp suit in the corner having a rage wank?

Sounds like an illegal order

Hegseth's actions show a grotesque disregard for human life. This is shameful for the USA, once a beacon of justice and fairness to the world, now we're a lawless pariah.

This was murder.

It’s gonna be amazing when the democrats do nothing about this.

What sons of bitches

completely expected from the country funding and supporting Israel's genocide.

What the fuck.

Except that there's no war, so he's simply a murderous criminal.

Is there anyone surprised by Hegseth's lack of judgment? Did anyone think that when faced with a critical decision he would do the RIGHT thing? Did anyone thing he had the knowledge skills & ability to be Defense Secretary? If you are out there, they released the Epstein files by the deadline.

Who is going to stop this?

War crimes. Hegseth has to go now.

Isn't that a war crime?

We. Are. Not. Signatories. To. The. ICC. Stop fantasizing about things that cannot ever happen.

Question for the WaPo editorial board; how long until yall publish an op-ed justifying this or are you waiting for Bezos to tell you to do so.

Admiral Alvin Holsey needs to talk to Congress.

Of course it's not easy. Doing your duty isn't always easy, but it is still expected of you

Clear war crime by Sec Def

Major Alcoholic --> Major Disaster --> Major Murder

We’ve got 6 members of Congress who would like to remind ALL military members; “you do not have to obey ILLEGAL orders.” The military takes an oath to the constitution not to one person.

This is a war crime. You should call it a war crime, because that’s what it is. Why is the Washington Post covering for war crimes?

The mission commander obeyed an illegal order.

Unqualified people are going to do things that display why they are unqualified. And Trump is unqualified. And 90% of his staff are unqualified, unfit and lack a moral center like him. Imagine the damage they are inflicting.

I can’t wait for the demise of this administration. I hope they all go to prison.

First-degree murder.

Suggested reading (we tried and shot Nazis for this): www.usni.org/magazines/na...

the only thing the trump admin deserves is a declaration of their crimes and 6ft of unnamed dirt

This will never happen lol

Dems will never do it. That would involve reckoning with their war crimes and curb their ability to engage in extrajudicial killings, neither of which they want.

A girl can dream

Who’s going to make them face consequences? Not democrats. not the media. Not the courts. Who?

That would require the war criminal scum USA to be signatories of the ICC.

Sorry but as much as Pete Hegseth deserves it, no American citizen will ever be taken to the Hague. It's just not going to happen.