{"id":326820,"date":"2025-12-02T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=326820"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:09:50","slug":"u-s-military-strikes-venezuelan-vessel-in-anti-drug-operation-drawing-legal-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=326820","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Strikes Venezuelan Vessel in Anti-Drug Operation, Drawing Legal Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Navy Vice Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the second strike under authority from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to combat fentanyl trafficking by narco-terrorist groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports alleged Hegseth directed to &#8216;kill everybody,&#8217; which he called fake news, while President Trump said he spoke with Hegseth and would not have wanted the follow-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what they are about to do is is throw the Admiral and the SEAL Team 6 Operators under the bus for this war crime. See how it works? They won&#8217;t go down for their crimes but our service members will. When you ask why I&#8217;m &#8220;defending drug traffickers&#8221; I am not! I am defending our service members being ordered to conduct murders that only they will pay for. I&#8217;m defending our troops not the criminals on either side of this action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats like Sen. Richard Blumenthal warned of potential war crimes, as congressional probes and briefings continue amid broader efforts against Venezuelan smuggling networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats like Sen. Richard Blumenthal warned of potential war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":326863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862,4166],"tags":[18921,11],"class_list":["post-326820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","category-venezuela","tag-anti-drug","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326864,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326820\/revisions\/326864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}