'If what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line,' Kelly said.
following reports of an alleged verbal follow-up strike order he gave in September to “kill everybody” after the first strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat left survivors in the water.Hill Republicans keep breaking with Trump as lame duck chatter grows In response to a question from CNN’s Dana Bash over whether or not a second strike to eliminate any survivors “constitutes a war crime,” Kelly responded, “It seems to.
” “If that is true, if what has been reported is accurate, I’ve got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia, we’re not Iraq. We hold ourselves to a very high standard of professionalism,” Kelly said of athat Hegseth gave the alleged follow-up “kill everybody” order after the first Sept. 2 strike left two survivors hanging on to the suspected drug-trafficking boat. “As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes.’ The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization,” Hegsethto urge U.S. servicemembers to refuse unspecified illegal orders. The past couple of weeks have been tumultuous for Kelly after President Donald TrumpSen. Markwayne Mullin , also of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on the Sunday show after Kelly and questioned the validity of the“I don’t know if I believe that at all because we’re doing alleged sources, nothing has been verified by this. We do know that a survivor that did survive in later attacks was picked up by the United States Coast Guard or Navy, I’m not for sure, and was sent back to his country. You guys reported on that. So I doubt, very seriously, that took place,” Mullin said.
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