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Remember last year when a misleading Washington Post story was debunked by one of the newspaper’s own columnists? This media tale is suddenly getting even weirder as a congressman and a CNN anchor are now acting as if the story was never shot full of holes—just five months after a Post columnist blew it out of the water. Regular readers may recall Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) as the Democrat who was willing to speak in defense of female sports but wasn’t willing to vote that way. Now that he’s running for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, perhaps he no longer even desires to sound like a political moderate. This week Mr. Moulton appeared on CNN for an interview with anchor Erin Burnett and decided to rehash the smear against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the Post made infamous last year. Here’s the relevant portion of the CNN transcript: BURNETT: Do you believe that the secretary of defense is guilty of war crimes? MOULTON: Absolutely. I mean, he’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when its very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narcoterrorists, a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there’s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There’s been press reporting on some of these individuals who’ve been killed who are clearly not war criminals. And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again. A double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.
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