Republicans begin to tighten the screws on Hegseth’s Pentagon
In a classified briefing for lawmakers scrutinizing the Trump administration’s killing of suspected drug smugglers around Latin America.
The Pentagon, facing questions about its legal basis for attacking civilian vessels, sent no lawyers to the October meeting.
The Defense Department officials who did attend, those people said, were unable to explain the mission’s strategy and scope.
As exasperation among Republicans over the lack of transparency grows, Adm. Frank M. Bradley is set to meet with lawmakers Thursday to discuss a Sept..
2 missile strike on a boat that killed 11 people, including two survivors who died in a follow-up attack as they clung to the wreckage.
He oversaw the mission and is expected to tell them that he considered the survivors viable targets, not shipwrecked, defenseless mariners,.
That strike has intensified scrutiny of the Pentagon, and key lawmakers have questioned their confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth..