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Pentagon Begins Independent Inquiry Into Special Ops and War Crimes The Defense Department inspector general will examine whether elite U.S. commando forces are doing enough to comply with the laws of armed conflict and hold violators accountable. Navy SEAL team members in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006. The office of the Defense Department’s inspector general said it was starting an inquiry into whether special operations troops take care to abide by the laws of armed conflict during combat missions.Credit...Todd Pitman/Associated Press Jan. 28, 2021 For decades the Defense Department has relied on...

The troops will be National Guard, and not active-duty. But officials know such events are fraught with risk, and cite Kent State in 1970, Tiananmen Square in 1989 and Tehran in 2009.

We see the ability of the chinese culturally to impose silence on some of our most famous athletes, some of our most outspoken citizens. we see the filling of the middle east with russian influence as opposed to american. we see america's adversaries with license to move. we see chaos in the world. and so we've entered this consequences stage of the trump presidency. and i think when we look at it we should take very seriously what the former head of the u.s. special operations command admiral william mcraven said and he said the republic is under attack from within by the president. we're mov...

American influence in the world. we see the ability of the chinese culturally to impose silence on some of our most famous athletes, some of our most outspoken citizens. we see the filling of the middle east with russian influence as opposed to american. we see america's adversaries with license to move. we see chaos in the world. and so we've entered this consequences stage of the trump presidency. and i think when we look at it we should take very seriously what the former head of the u.s. special operations command admiral william mcraven said and he said the republic is under attack from w...

Presidency. and i think when we look at it, we should take very seriously what the former head of the u.s. special operations command admiral william mcraven said. and he's not an indeliberate man. he said the republic is under attack from within by the president. we're moving into a very, very serious time in this country now. >> i want to talk about you just mentioned what's going on in syria, and i wanted to talk to you about that. there's two things. one, it's really interesting to me to watch republicans react to this. lindsey graham in particular but a lot of them because i i think to my...