{"id":1922,"date":"2025-12-05T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:40:54","slug":"scrounging-for-a-hegseth-defense-right-wing-commentators-seize-on-ny-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Scrounging for a Hegseth defense, right-wing commentators seize on NY Times report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Right-wing commentators have seized upon a New York Times report on the U.S. military&#8217;s September 2 extrajudicial killing of 11 people on board a boat the Trump administration alleged was carrying drugs in the Caribbean, claiming that the article &#8220;DEBUNKED&#8221; a previous Washington Post report that triggered congressional scrutiny over potential war crimes. But the Times actually confirmed, rather than undermined, the Post&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>The Post reported Friday that according to its sources, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order &#8220;to kill everybody&#8221; on board the boat before the attack, and that after confirming that the first strike left two survivors, the Navy special operations commander overseeing the action, Adm. Frank Bradley, &#8220;ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth&#8217;s instructions,&#8221; killing them. Lawmakers of both parties quickly vowed to aggressively scrutinize the attack, which legal experts argued would constitute, &#8220;at best, a war crime under federal law.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2025-12-05-0800\/media-bias-scrounging-hegseth-defense-right-wing-commentators-seize-ny-times-report\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing commentators have seized upon a New York Times report on the U.S. military&#8217;s September 2 extrajudicial killing of 11 people on board a boat the Trump administration alleged was carrying drugs in the Caribbean, claiming that the article &#8220;DEBUNKED&#8221; a previous Washington Post report that triggered congressional scrutiny over potential war crimes. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}