"On November 18, Elise Slotkin released a video in which she and five other former military or intelligence officers - Mark Kelly, Chris DeLuzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, and Jason Crow - reminding that they can refuse illegal orders. One of the tactics Republicans chose to use in response was to demand that the members of Congress describe what illegal orders had been given."
"The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern."
On November 18 Elise Slotkin released a video with five former military or intelligence officers — Mark Kelly, Chris DeLuzio, Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, and Jason Crow — reminding service members they can refuse illegal orders. Republicans demanded specifics about which orders were illegal and some moved to prosecute the six, with efforts to withdraw Mark Kelly from retirement and court-martial him. The video focused on alleged orders to target Americans amid a pattern of "murderboat" strikes against Venezuelans, Colombians, and Trinidadians. Reporting indicates Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally directed a strike, saying "The order was to kill everybody."
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