{"id":16371,"date":"2025-12-07T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cotton-backs-release-of-second-strike-video-its-not-gruesome\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:21:44","slug":"cotton-backs-release-of-second-strike-video-its-not-gruesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cotton-backs-release-of-second-strike-video-its-not-gruesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton backs release of second strike video: \u2018It&#8217;s not gruesome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday that he backs the release of video of a controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, as pressure mounts on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. &ldquo;Do you think that the video should be released in full to the American public&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5637602-tom-cotton-backs-boat-strike-video-release\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday that he backs the release of video of a controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, as pressure mounts on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. &ldquo;Do you think that the video should be released in full to the American public&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16371","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\/16371","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=16371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}