#frankbradley — Public Fediverse posts
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US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and l…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #BryanClark #DarylCaudle #DonaldTrump #EvanSankey #FrankBradley #GeorgeWashington #gerald-ford #GregPoling #Iran #MichaelSwaine #NicolasMaduro #RobertFarley #TheodoreRoosevelt #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
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US special operations forces ready to step up combat drills in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American special operations forces are ready to step up warfighting-readiness exercises with counterparts in…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Asia #AsiaPacific #DonaldTrump #FrankBradley #Generalnews #Iran #iranwar #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Philippines #Philippinesgovernment #SouthChinaSea #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #World #Worldnews
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The Real Reason For Boat Strike ‘Double Taps’ Is Preventing Survivors From Challenging Extrajudicial Killings In Court
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"Obviously what these lawmakers saw contradicts the latter suggestion: The two men were, in [Rep. Adam] Smith’s telling, very visible, so the 'fog of war' line appears to be nonsense. And Hegseth’s implication that the strike was justified due to confusion about the men’s status also appears to be in profound doubt."
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder #NewYorkTimes
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"[The video shown to Congress members] badly undermines the story Hegseth has told. He has said that he did not see the two men before the second strike was ordered, suggesting both that he’d gone off to do other things and that the 'fog of war' had prevented a clear viewing of the two men."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder #NewYorkTimes
/19https://newrepublic.com/article/203988/hegseth-boat-strike-video-details-horrific
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Now NYT is having to backtrack and admit that it swallowed a lie:
"Amid preparations for the briefing, multiple U.S. officials had told The Times that they had been told that one of the survivors had radioed for help, but the people said remarks from Admiral Bradley about communications were instead purely speculative."
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder #NewYorkTimes
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As David Kurtz notes, in its parrot-emulating "objectivity" which repeats verbatim what government officials say to it, with no questions asked about the veracity of said officials, New York Times parroted Trump administration statements that the two survivors murdered in a second strike radioed for help before they were killed.
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder #NewYorkTimes
/17https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/lindsey-halligan-still-cosplaying
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"But for the cowardice and complicity of men and women like Chief Justice John Roberts, Special Operations Commander Admiral Frank Bradley, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump’s lawless reign could be slowed or stopped."
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #PamBondi #WarCrimes
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"In short order, Trump has managed to corrupt the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and the senior leadership of the US military (among other government agencies). He did so by compromising, neutralizing, or replacing small groups of leaders in each of those organs of democracy."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #WarCrimes
/1https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/thursday-served-as-a-bracing-reminder
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"Now that Congress has initiated inquiries over the behavior of Pete Hegseth and the 'Department of War,' it is time they planned hearings to examine Trump’s increasing infirmity. It is a matter of national security, and waiting to do so is political malpractice."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder #MentalDecline #dementia #health
/14https://mmansour.substack.com/p/there-is-no-denying-trumps-cognitive
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"If actually issued, these orders irresponsibly and unlawfully placed all those involved in the attack in serious legal jeopardy. If the reporting is accurate, those orders should, as a matter of law, have been refused."
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"Under well-established law, those who complied with the orders cannot escape individual criminal responsibility for the killing of the two survivors in the event they are brought to trial in a U.S. military court-martial, a federal trial, or a domestic criminal proceeding in another State that has jurisdiction, for instance, based on the nationality of the victims."
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"However, if the facts are as reported, there is little question that the order by Secretary Hegseth and the ensuing order by Admiral Bradley to conduct the second strike were unlawful, because the killing of the two survivors was a serious violation of international human rights law.
Moreover, both orders were clearly unlawful."
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"The Sept. 2 strikes on the purported drug boat neither violated the law of armed conflict nor amounted to war crimes, because they did not occur during an armed conflict."
~ Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder
/10https://www.justsecurity.org/125948/illegal-orders-shipwrecked-boat-strike-survivors/
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"It is the 22nd strike the US military has carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people since September, when the strikes began."
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"The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific, as questions mount over the legality of the attacks."
~ Dani Anguiano and Robert Mackey
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #WarCrimes #murder
/8https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/pentagon-boat-strike-pacific
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"Hegseth is not apologetic for the attacks he has been sanctioning. Nor is he backing down. Tonight, Southern Command posted video of another lethal attack on a boat."
~ Joyce Vance
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"I'd love to know how Senator Cotton (Hegseth-Bradley) was able to detect these shipwrecked people were trying to 'stay in the fight' versus clinging to dear life in an effort to survive."
~ Ryan Goodman
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
/6https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3m76zkq7cvs2k
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While Rep. Himes of Connecticut says that the video of the murder of two men clinging to the remains f a bot was "one of the most troubling things" he'd seen, Arkansas Sen. Cotton says it was "righteous." to which Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last respond with mockery:
"Righteous! Righteous! We must kill 'em! Kill 'em all!"
Some people have moral compasses. Others don't, sadly.
#Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
/5https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tom-cottons-drug-boat-theory-doesnt
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"They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.
The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died."
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"Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.
The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment."
~ Joseph Gedeon and Chris Stein
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“'What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,' Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said. 'You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,... killed by the United States.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
~ Lisa Needham
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4/4 Rep. Jim Himes, House Intel Ranking Democrat on the briefing: “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States.” #boatStrikes #Trump #PeteHegseth #FrankBradley #Carribean #Venzuela #warcrimes
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Now we know why #Trump called them suckers & losers, it was if they thought they could serve under his reign without blowback.
#JointChiefs chair Gen #DanCaine & #scapegoat US #Navy Adm #FrankBradley at Hill briefing on boat strike
Bradley & Caine are in the secure area at the Capitol where top lawmakers are gathered for the closed-door #classified morning briefing
#Hegseth #law #criminal #murder #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #Congress #Defense #DoD #Carribean #Venezuela #InternationalLaw
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Former Air Force secretary: Bradley ‘would be court-martialed’ under ‘normal circumstances’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5629558-kendall-rejects-bradley-boat-strikes/
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday rejected Navy Adm. Frank Bradley’s reasoning for launching a second strike on a vessel in the Caribbean as two wounded survivors clung on to the boat…