{"id":16193,"date":"2025-12-03T04:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-hegseth-is-either-lying-to-us-about-boat-strike-or-hes-incompetent\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:20:50","slug":"rand-paul-hegseth-is-either-lying-to-us-about-boat-strike-or-hes-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-hegseth-is-either-lying-to-us-about-boat-strike-or-hes-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Hegseth is either \u2018lying to us\u2019 about boat strike or \u2018he&#8217;s incompetent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sharply criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for defending a second military strike on survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat in September, after the secretary first dismissed the bombshell report as &ldquo;fake news.&rdquo; In remarks to reporters at the Capitol&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5631028-paul-questions-heggeth-competence\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday sharply criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for defending a second military strike on survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat in September, after the secretary first dismissed the bombshell report as &ldquo;fake news.&rdquo; In remarks to reporters at the Capitol&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}