Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends an event at the State Department on Monday. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared with his old colleagues on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” to brag about the precision of the operation.

“I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing and we knew exactly who they represented,” Hegseth said.

He added that these were gang members from Venezuela who were “trying to poison our country with illicit drugs.”

But three months later, the story of the already legally dubious attack has become one of the biggest controversies of the sec

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