In an administration full of colorful characters, War Secretary Pete Hegseth has a penchant for stealing headlines.

But this week his talent for drawing ink was a function not just of his unorthodox approach to the job, but of a condemnable attempt at undermining the authority of President Donald Trump’s duly elected government.

And the legacy media’s breathless coverage of Hegseth’s every move bears no resemblance to the muted — and far less numerous — reports on Barack Obama’s embrace of drone attacks that killed non-combatants and even American citizens.

Not to mention Joe Biden’s murder of 10 civilians in Kabul during a failed attempt to avenge the Abbey Gate bombing.

On Friday, scrutiny of lethal military strikes on alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean reached fever pitch when the Washington Post claimed Hegseth had executed a “double tap” — a second strike on survivors clinging to wreckage — during one operation in September.

Per the WaPo: “Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. ‘The order was to kill everybody,’ one of them said.”

The New York Times, though, later clarified that Hegseth

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