Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is continuing to lie about an Iranian drone strike that killed six U.S. servicemembers in early March, and now he’s lashing out at the survivors of the blast, too. After the missile struck the troop base, the defense secretary minimized the incident , calling the missile a “squirter” that “happened to hit a tactical operations center that was fortified.” But a month later, multiple anonymous survivors of the blast talked to CBS , and claimed Hegseth was fibbing.