One of Pete Hegseth’s former colleagues at Fox News says it gives him “no pleasure to say” that the defense secretary must be prosecuted for war crimes.

Andrew Napolitano, now a senior judicial analyst on the pro-Trump network Newsmax, dismissed the White House’s claim that the U.S. military acted within the law when Hegseth allegedly ordered that everyone aboard a suspected Venezuelan drug boat be killed in the Caribbean in September, including two people who survived the initial airstrike.

“I wish the White House would reveal to us the laws on which the president is relying. He says he has an opinion from the Justice Department, but neither the Justice Department nor the White House will offer it for public scrutiny,” Napolitano, 75, a retired judge who was ousted from Fox News in 2021

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