
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have committed a war crime if a report claiming that survivors of a strike against an alleged drug vessels were finished off with a second attack.
In a social media publication, Lieu told Hegseth that he read the DOJ memo exempting military members involved in the deployment in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific from prosecution and nothing in it "or military law, authorizes a second kinetic strike against defenseless survivors."