Pentagon ‘Does Not Know’ Who Its Blowing Up in Venezuelan ‘Drug Boats’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “does not know” who the military is killing in strikes against “drug boats” off the coast of Venezuela, a report has alleged.

People familiar with classified briefings tell The New York Times that the military has abandoned its typical approach of targeting confirmed adversaries and is instead blowing up vessels without knowing “precisely” who it is hitting.

The strikes are not total shots in the dark, the Times sources noted. It reports that the “military knows that someone on the boats has a connection to a drug cartel, and it has some level of confidence that drugs are on the vessels.”

However, critics like Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, say the strikes are eliminating, at best, low-level members of a drug cartel.