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Podcast: Democracy Now!
Episode: Column — Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth's Dept. of War (Crimes)
Description: By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. strikes on September 2. These actions, along with at least 20 additional lethal boat strikes that followed, are widely considered by legal and military experts to be war crimes.