Pete Hegseth has deployed his signature blend of belligerence and blame-shifting in an effort to shut down questions about his involvement in a potential war crime. Yet scrutiny of the defense secretary has only continued to intensify, with even some Republicans on Capitol Hill raising questions and promising to investigate the military’s reported second strike on a Venezuelan boat in September. “If that occurred, that would be very serious,” Mike Turner, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said on CBS News’s Face the Nation Sunday. “That would be an illegal act.”

Last week, the Intercept and The Washington Post reported that earlier this fall, Seal Team 6 conducted a “double-tap” strike on what was described as a drug boat after two men survived the initial att

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