The Washington Post detonated a political bombshell over the weekend with a report alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. forces to kill survivors of a drone strike on suspected drug smugglers — a charge that, if true, would constitute a clear war crime.

The story appears to have finally rattled some normally stalwart Republicans.

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