Pentagon Watchdog Stalls Proposal to Review Targeting in Trump’s Boat Strikes

A new inspector general delayed a decision on whether to approve the project and is said to have raised its potential political ramifications, in a test of the watchdog system in President Trump’s second term.Platte B. Moring III, a Defense Department lawyer in the first Trump administration, was nominated as the Pentagon’s watchdog by President Trump after the president fired at least 17 inspectors general.