“This is murder,” said one legal expert. Finger-pointing has reportedly begun inside the Pentagon as the Trump White House has tried to shield US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from taking the blame for a double-tap strike on a purported narcotics smuggling vessel that many legal experts say was an obvious war crime. According to the Washington Post, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set off “a furious […]
Two Republican-controlled committees also said they were opening investigations into the defense secretary’s alleged order to “kill everybody” aboard a boat in the Caribbean in September—the first of nearly two dozen strikes. Former top military lawyers on Saturday said that new reporting on orders personally given by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in early September, when the […]
One legal expert called the press secretary’s remarks “painful” to watch and warned of “how the reported patently illegal orders will affect US service members.” While continuing to deny that the Pentagon chief ordered those carrying out the first known US military strike on an alleged drug-running boat to “kill everybody” on board, the top White House spokesperson on Monday reiterated […]
The Social Security Administration’s plan, warned one Senate Democrat, will likely lead to “worse service and more challenges.” The Trump administration is reportedly looking to dramatically reduce the number of people who visit Social Security field offices across the United States, a plan that Democratic lawmakers warned is yet another scheme to disrupt and ultimately cut benefits. Nextgov/FCW viewed internal Social Security Administration (SSA) […]
