Calling for Foreign Countries to Pursue Criminal Cases Against Secretary Hegseth

This is evil.

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 14, 2026

Three former government lawyers wrote the plan to prosecute Pete Hegseth. Their timing: WAIT until Trump leaves office. It ran in May on Just Security, a national security law site. Two of the authors worked for Barack Obama, one as counselor to his Homeland Security secretary, one as adviser to his Guantanamo closure envoy. The third served in the State Department's war crimes office. Their line on Colombia and Ecuador, verbatim: officials there could "gather evidence of the crimes and wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office." The crimes they mean are the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Ninety-nine countries, they count, have laws that let them charge a foreigner with crimes against humanity. They don't stop at the Secretary. The essay names Admiral Frank Bradley, who runs Special Operations Command, and General Francis Donovan, who runs Southern Command, as "potential perpetrators." Tuesday, the same day the House shelved his impeachment, Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said what was coming: "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow." I read the essay. He wasn't guessing. The admiral and the general were already on the page. That isn't justice. That's waiting for the guard to change. 💎

— Jewels Jones ® (@JewelsJonesLive) November 14, 2026

… one as adviser to his Guantanamo closure envoy. The third served in the State Department's war crimes office.

Their line on Colombia and Ecuador, verbatim: officials there could "gather evidence of the crimes and wait to issue indictments until Trump is out of office." The crimes they mean are the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Ninety-nine countries, they count, have laws that let them charge a foreigner with crimes against humanity.

They don't stop at the Secretary. The essay names Admiral Frank Bradley, who runs Special Operations Command, and General Francis Donovan, who runs Southern Command, as "potential perpetrators."

Tuesday, the same day the House shelved his impeachment, Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and said what was coming: "Put the secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow."

I read the essay. He wasn't guessing. The admiral and the general were already on the page.

That isn't justice. That's waiting for the guard to change.