Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker

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https://www.rawstory.com/pentagon-boat-strikes/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54314690

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Why?

As in, why admit it? The current US administration is mask-off evil and very little is being done about it. They lie constantly because there are no checks/balances and it’s an idiotic system.

…so why admit anything like this?

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As a fuck you to everyone else. It is very much a “what are you going to do to stop it?”

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That’s a fair point, now you mention it.

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the more blatant the rule breaking the more humiliating it is for the powerless to nod and accept their fate

and that makes them happy

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Absolutely a demoralization tactic.

And it’s working- Americans have already given up on doing a single damn thing

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They still have to give some veneer of accountability to Congress to keep the Republican Representatives in line. This wasn’t a Pentagon spokesperson going to the media, this was a legislator talking to the media after being briefed by the Pentagon.

“They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes,” Rep. Sarah Jacobs (R-CA) told CNN following the briefing.

The lawmaker pointed to the Pentagon’s admission to explain why the Trump administration “could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.”

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