Officials from the Pentagon reportedly admitted that they were unable to verify who was on alleged drug boats before launching strikes killing everyone aboard the vessels. After carrying out strikes on more than a dozen boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, the Pentagon gave lawmakers from both partie...
  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    22 hours ago

    Why?

    As in, why admit it? The current US administration is mask-off evil and very little is being done about it. They lie constantly because there are no checks/balances and it’s an idiotic system.

    …so why admit anything like this?

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      7 hours ago

      They still have to give some veneer of accountability to Congress to keep the Republican Representatives in line. This wasn’t a Pentagon spokesperson going to the media, this was a legislator talking to the media after being briefed by the Pentagon.

      “They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes,” Rep. Sarah Jacobs (R-CA) told CNN following the briefing.

      The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon’s admission to explain why the Trump administration “could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”

    • Catma@lemmy.world
      30·
      21 hours ago

      As a fuck you to everyone else. It is very much a “what are you going to do to stop it?”