Day: November 28, 2025

In an exclusive released today by The Washington Post, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation, to “kill everybody” in the strike on an alleged narco-trafficking vessel targeted on September 2 in the Southern Caribbean.

Following the initial strike, reportedly carried out by the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 6, a live drone feed showed that two of the eleven crewmembers onboard the vessel had survived and were clinging to the burning wreck, leading the commander of the operation to order a second strike to comply with the instructions given by Secretary Hegseth. The order, essentially a directive to show no quarter, would be considered a war crime if proven to have given by Hegseth.

Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, who at the time was the Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), gave the order to carry out the second strike, telling others on a secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets because they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo, with him having since been promoted to lead U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) Nov 28, 2025