Leon Panetta – Screencap of YouTube video.
Leon Panetta, who served as Obama’s first Secretary of Defense in 2009, recently accused Pete Hegseth of committing a war crime, because of the most recent drone strike on a narco-terrorist boat approaching the United States.
One has to wonder if he thought his old boss Obama committed a war crime when he killed American citizens with a drone strike. Funny, no one in the media has thought to ask him about that.
The Hill reports:
Ex-Defense chief Panetta says he doesn’t ‘think there’s any question’ second strike was war crime
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday he doesn’t “think there’s any question” a reported second U.S. strike on an alleged Caribbean drug boat was a war crime.
“I don’t think there’s any question that that’s a war crime, if it happened in that way. I think the best thing that’s happening now is that the Armed Services Committee in both the Senate and the House have indicated that they’re going to do a full investigation of this issue,” Panetta said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
“And I think that’s what’s needed, because, there’s obviously going to be a lot of different viewpoints, you heard what the president said. But, I think, ultimately it’s up to those committees to find out exactly what happened. And if it was a war crime, to make sure we hold people accountable,” he added.
Multiple lawmakers have pushed the Trump administration for information after The Washington Post and CNN reported late last week that the U.S. carried out an additional strike on the alleged drug-smuggling boat in September, killing two survivors of the initial strike.
Here’s the video:
Leon Panetta has already determined that war crimes have been committed, and that accountability is due.
“As far as I’m concerned, there is a war crime involved here.”
The fmr CIA Dir/Sec Def’s last appearance of note was as a signatory to the Hunter Laptop “51 Intelligence… pic.twitter.com/vEZEmLJmwR
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 2, 2025
FUN FACT: Panetta was one of the 51 ‘Intel Experts’ who signed a letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Here he is trying to explain that on FOX News back in January of 2024.
Leon Panetta was also one of the 50 that signed the letter declaring Hunter Biden’s Laptop was Russia disinformation.
His answer either means he thinks you are incredibly stupid or he is incredibly stupid! pic.twitter.com/rvGyMF0c3x
— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) January 21, 2024
These people are not serious about any of this. Everything is just a political attack, nothing more or less.
Last word goes to this guy:
I’m glad Luigi Mangione is back in the news so that the people who tell me it’s an outrage to kill narcoterrorists can tell me why it’s awesome to murder American health care executives.
— Sunny (@sunnyright) December 2, 2025
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