Pete Hegseth’s Year of Blowing Up Boats – Mother Jones

“The United States is simply killing individuals unilaterally without any legal basis or process.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/hegseth-caribbean-boat-strikes-bombings-drones-year-227-killed/ 

Senate threatens to freeze Hegseth’s travel in bid for boat strike videos, Iran school strike probe - POLITICO

Major defense legislation approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee freezes three quarters of the Defense Secretary’s travel budget until Congress gets what it wants...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/senate-threatens-to-freeze-hegseths-travel-in-bid-for-boat-strike-videos-iran-school-strike-probe-00964789

 

Delhi issues ‘strong protest’ after US strikes kill three Indian seafarers in Gulf

Washington claims vessel was violating its blockade of Iranian ports and failed to comply with instructions…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/11/delhi-issues-strong-protest-after-us-fire-kills-three-indian-seafarers-in-gulf

 

The Death Toll From U.S. Boat Strikes

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VBSNqlGhFvk

US strike kills three on alleged narco boat as campaign death toll hits 185

Legal experts and rights groups suggest the strikes could amount to extrajudicial killings because they have apparently targeted civilians who do not pose an immediate threat to the US...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/us-three-killed-boat-alleged-narco-eastern-pacific

US military kills two more people in strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific

Small boat destroyed in video posted on social media as US campaign has killed at least 178 people since September…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/us-military-strike-boat-pacific 

 

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivors

 

Democrats file articles of impeachment against Hegseth for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’

Accusations refer to attack on Iran without congressional authorization and strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/democrats-pete-hegseth-impeachment

 

US military says it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific

Strike marks third deadly attack on vessels in region in four days, and the killing of 174 people since September…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/us-military-boat-strike-eastern-pacific

 

Obama Drone Strikes vs. Boat Strikes: Why the Legal Comparison Fails

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0a5OfXfCJ1k

 

GOP signals end to probes into military’s killing of boat strike survivors - The Washington Post

"Whether lawmakers or analysts call them a war crime or murder, the real problem is these uses of deadly force are not legally justified," said Geoffrey Corn, a professor of law at Texas Tech University and a former Army lawyer...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/18/boat-strike-survivors-congress-inquiries/

 

Trump Says It’s a “Dead Issue.” It Really Isn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LLcJss-Lk9c

 

Senate pushes forward with boat strike probe as House pulls back - POLITICO

Pentagon officials "have been bragging about and almost marketing the videos showing explosions on the boats, and now they're somehow saying, 'but we can't show you this part of the video with the survivors,'" said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. "That doesn't pass anybody's smell test."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/senate-boat-strike-defense-hegseth-00687115 

 

House passes defense bill, forcing Pentagon's hand on boat strike videos - POLITICO

The must-pass legislation also restricts the Trump administration from significantly reducing U.S. troop levels in Europe…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/house-passes-ndaa-boat-strike-videos-00685641 

 

No Evidence No Problem #PaulaPoundstone #DonaldTrump #comedy #Politics

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zYSahrBAgrU

 

What Explains Trump’s Aggression Toward Venezuela? Who Knows. - The Atlantic

Batya Ungar-Sargon, who has previously complained that Trump was unfairly denied the Nobel Peace Prize, is trying to rerun the Iraq War playbook by labeling narcotics a kind of weapon of mass destruction. "To Democrats and their sympathetic media, you're not allowed to stop chemical weapons from killing your children," she declared recently. "You're supposed to politely ask them not to come. And if they do, you're supposed to politely put them on trial, with a taxpayer-funded lawyer, of course." 

If you remove politely, which anyone who's seen Breaking Bad or Narcos knows is not how the Drug Enforcement Agency operates, Ungar-Sargon's account of America's antidrug policy is accurate. The way it traditionally works is that we tell foreign drug dealers not to come, and, yes, if they do, we try them in court. The practice is less dramatic than using missiles to destroy boats that might have drugs, but it has the advantages of being legal and less likely to incinerate innocent fishermen...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trump-boat-strikes-war-venezuela/685199/ 

 

Adm. Alvin Holsey, pushed out by Hegseth, meets privately with senators - The Washington Post

Adm. Alvin Holsey, who oversees military operations in Latin America, has voiced concern about the Trump administration's activities there...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/09/alvin-holsey-hegseth-boat-strikes/

 

Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos - POLITICO

Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/ndaa-boat-strikes-congress-hegseth-without-funds-00680679 

 

'Nothing to do with the drug trade': 4-Star General reacts to boat strikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC7uCyrorD8

 

"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against boat strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLXA9uLUWmA