"And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...

This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."

#Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
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"And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.

Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."

#Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
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"Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.

Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”

#Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
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Blue Amp continues its reporting on a story I noted here yesterday re: two survivors of a US attack on a boat on 17 October who were rescued by the US military. They were then photographed and videotaped in accord with law — but someone somewhere apparently then gave an order to destroy this documentation in contravention of law.

#Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
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https://www.blueamp.co/p/deletegate-blows-open-how-a-dod-cover