US EditionHegseth says he did not personally see survivors before second deadly Venezuela boat strike
Secretary Hegseth cites 'fog of war' defending a controversial double-strike killing 11 suspected narco-terrorists; over 20 similar strikes killed 82 people, Congress probes legality.
- At a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters, `I didn't personally see survivors`.
- On Sept. 2, an initial strike left two survivors clinging to wreckage who were killed in a subsequent strike; the vessel, carrying 11 individuals, lost nine others.
- Hegseth has said he left after the initial strike and later affirmed that Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley ordered the second strike and acted within his authority and the law.
- Bipartisan lawmakers have opened inquiries and requested video release as former JAGs warn the strikes could constitute war crimes if verified, with the Pentagon manual calling attacks on survivors illegal.
- As the counternarcotics campaign has expanded, a Washington Post report saying Hegseth ordered forces to “kill everybody” prompted investigations amid more than 20 strikes and more than 80 dead.
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Calls grow to release video of deadly U.S. air strike near Venezuela
WASHINGTON (NBC, KYMA) - From Capitol Hill, calls are growing louder to release the video of the September 2 air strike on an alleged drug boat near Venezuela that killed survivors of the first hit. Critics are calling it a war crime while in a new interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," one leading Republican lawmaker, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, defended the move, arguing the survivors were not incapacitated by the first strike. Signs of an inte…
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West Hawaii TodayDemocrats call for releasing classified video of deadly boat attacks
WASHINGTON — Top Democrats called Sunday for the release of classified video of the U.S. military’s first operation targeting a boat in the Caribbean in early September, an attack that has faced heavy scrutiny in part for its follow-up strike that killed two survivors.
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