Former Fox News Senior Legal analyst, and now doing the same for Newsmax, Judge Andrew Napolitano blasted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and all those who carried out the orders to execute two “narco terrorist” Venezuelan boaters who survived the initial attack.
Napolitano first demanded to know what legal opinion the Trump administration was following that gave them permission to assassinate alleged drug traffickers in international waters since they have refused to share those with the media.
NAPOLITANO: Well, 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 or the White House will offer it for public scrutiny.
And it gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News.
This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors, who the law requires be rescued, instead to be murdered. There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.
On that point, most credible pundits, analysts and legal scholars agree. In American, drug smuggling, dealing and or distributing is not a capitol offense.
Napolitano spares no one. “Everybody along the line who did it, from the Secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger, should be prosecuted for a war crime for killing these two people,” he said.
