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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,679 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 07:36 PM Dec 27

Whiskey Pete's Embarrassing New Boat Strike Blunder Exposed

Pete Hegseth’s bomb-first, question-later approach to alleged narcoterrorists is reportedly helping those same terrorists get off scot-free.

A Hegseth-directed bombing on a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Ecuador destroyed the evidence that was crucial to the prosecution of the survivors, according to a damning Washington Post report.

Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila, a 42-year-old Ecuadorian native with a drug-trafficking record, was one of two survivors of an Oct. 16 U.S. strike on a submarine that the Pentagon alleges was carrying drugs overseas. Two others were killed in the strike, and the fourth was extradited to Colombia.

The U.S. military captured Chila, then sent him back to Ecuador to be prosecuted. However, the U.S. provided the Ecuadorian government with no evidence that could lead to Chila’s arrest. Any evidence proving that Chila was committing a crime on that boat, such as seized drugs, GPS records, or cell phones, was blasted to the bottom of the sea.

The Ecuadorian government was forced to let Chila go, according to the Washington Post.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-embarrassing-boat-strike-181752073.html

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J_William_Ryan

(3,394 posts)
1. There's no limit to the incompetence of the Trump regime.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:49 PM
Dec 27

Not only is the regime involved in the illegal killing of civilians, but its lawless actions are allowing those potentially guilty to go free.

Ol Janx Spirit

(799 posts)
2. What do they care, really? None of this is about catching anyone...it's about killing people...
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 09:39 PM
Dec 27

..and getting the American people used to it.

Mission accomplished.

LudwigPastorius

(14,347 posts)
4. If there are survivors, Trump and Kegsbreath don't really care if they are prosecuted or not.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:45 PM
Dec 27

Because this whole extrajudicial execution of...well, whoever they say they are...is all about trying to make those two look like get-things-done, tough guys.

Attilatheblond

(8,478 posts)
8. And he who pardons major drug runners does NOT want any survivors to tell on those higher up
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:16 PM
Dec 28

Frankly, without evidence, I do NOT think those people in those boats were running drugs. But killing all of them is NOT how we get actionable information of the people in the 'distribution' network bringing drugs into the US.

If those people were actually running drugs, blowing them up was Trump protecting the top guys in the smuggling, or taking out competitors to the monster he pardoned. My money is on the likelihood Trump is being paid off for protection of the REAL drug kingpins.

IronLionZion

(50,985 posts)
5. oil tankers are captured, to carefully protect and steal the oil
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 11:12 PM
Dec 27

small boats are completely destroyed

Martin Eden

(15,418 posts)
6. Hegseth can execute people suspected of crime which does NOT carry the death penalty
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 07:57 AM
Dec 28

While an actual criminal court of law requires evidence to convict -- alleged evidence that Hegseth destroyed.

On the one hand we have people suspected but acquitted on charges of drug trafficking.

On the other we have someone who ordered the killing of people without evidence or trial.

WHO is the REAL CRIMINAL?

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