{"id":16277,"date":"2025-12-04T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-questions-where-hegseth-went-after-first-boat-strike\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:21:17","slug":"tillis-questions-where-hegseth-went-after-first-boat-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-questions-where-hegseth-went-after-first-boat-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis questions where Hegseth went after first boat strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday questioned where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on Sept. 2, after watching the livestream of the first strike on a boat allegedly carrying narcotics in the Caribbean. Tillis, in an appearance on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Source,&#8221; said he has no reason to doubt Hegseth&rsquo;s claim that he did not see&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5633113-thom-tillis-pete-hegseth-drug-boat-strikes\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday questioned where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on Sept. 2, after watching the livestream of the first strike on a boat allegedly carrying narcotics in the Caribbean. Tillis, in an appearance on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Source,&#8221; said he has no reason to doubt Hegseth&rsquo;s claim that he did not see&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16277","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\/16277","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=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}