Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “likely committed a war crime” by issuing an order that led to a secondary strike in September on boats allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said in a news release today.

Hegseth gave a directive to “kill everybody,” the Washington Post reported Friday.

Acting on Hegseth’s order, a special operations commander approved a secondary strike — even after seeing two men clinging to the “smoldering wreck” of their boat minutes after the initial attack, according to the outlet.

“It’s deeply shameful that the Secretary of Defense would violate the laws of armed conflict and put our brave servicemembers in this position,” Rosen, who serves on the Senate Armed Forces Committee, wrote in a statement Monday. “He should re

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