Pete Hegseth said to kill everybody, officials say

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  The order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was simple.

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  Kill them all.

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  Officials told Post reporters about Hegseth's order to strike a boat in the Caribbean.

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  And according to our exclusive reporting,

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  that order became the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on alleged drug traffickers coming from Venezuela.

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  Now legal experts say the command from Hegseth may be more than just an aggressive military action.

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  It could be considered a war crime.

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  or even murder.

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  From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

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  I'm Colby Echoitz.

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  It's Monday, December 1st.

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  Today,

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  we talk to National Security reporter Alex Horton about why Hexess order is so controversial and how even Republican lawmakers are alarmed by this discovery.

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  Alex, thank you so much for joining me.

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  It's great to be back again, Colby.

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  So Alex, your reporting shows that Hegseth,

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  he gave this kill order before the US carried out a September 2nd attack on a boat in the Caribbean.

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  And this would be the first of many more attacks over several months.

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  Remind us, why was the Pentagon targeting these boats?

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  So the Trump administration had handed down a new deck to the entire government,

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