In early September, the day after the first strike of the Trump Administration’s bombing campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared on Fox News to give a detailed account of the deadly incident.

“I watched it live,” he said during the interview . “We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented.”

But months later, after a Washington Post investigation revealed that Hegseth and others had possibly committed a war crime by allegedly ordering that no survivors be left on the vessel, he offered a different version of that story.

“I watched that first strike live,” Hegseth said. “As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do,

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