U.S. commanders followed the law in the second strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Saturday, while dismissing accusations that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued any blanket directive to kill survivors and calling the controversy a politically driven storyline.
“Look, the story was ludicrous,” Holt said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”
“The second I had heard it, we just, all professionals bit their lips because we knew that once the sunlight came in and the transparency came in, we’d all figure this out, that the CEO of the world’s largest enterprise, nearly $1 trillion in budget authority, doesn’t have time to decide who lives and dies on a battlefield.”
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