Hmmmmm?
Should we believe this guy’s words to the US Senate?
Where did the quote come from….
Where is the tape of Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley “’s call to the Defense Sec.?
Did Bradley take upon HIMSELF to go witha secons strike?
Is he falling on the sword FOR Hegseth?
This call’as for more questions?
A Navy admiral told lawmakers Thursday that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as Congress scrutinizes an attack that killed two survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters near Venezuela.
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley “was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all. He was given an order that, of course, was written down in great detail,” said Sen. Tom Cotton, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, as he exited a classified briefing.
Cotton defended the attack, but a Democrat who also was briefed said that while there was no “kill them all” order from Hegseth, he was still deeply concerned by video of the second strike.
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters. “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, were killed by the United States.”
Bradley was joined at the Capitol by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for sessions that came at a potentially crucial moment in the unfolding congressional investigation into how Hegseth handled the military operation in international waters near Venezuela. There are mounting questions over whether the strike may have violated the law….
*Update….
Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral who oversaw the controversial mission.
The recording was shown during meetings on Capitol Hill featuring Adm. Frank M. Bradley, the commander who oversaw the Sept. 2 operation that entailed four strikes in all. The attack killed 11 people, including the two people who survived the first blast that hit their boat….
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Hegseth has sought to distance himself from the controversy, pointing instead to Bradley, while also defending the second strike that killed the two survivors….
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Bradley considered the survivors to be viable targets, not shipwrecked, defenseless mariners, according to Cotton and another person familiar with the briefing.
The two survivors could have radioed for help from associates in the area and continued their “mission” of shipping drugs to American shores, Cotton said. It is not clear whether they attempted to do so or if they had equipment that wasn’t destroyed….
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Calling for help could indicate the men were still able to move drugs, but it doesn’t make them combatants who pose a threat and can be killed, said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces on the law of war for seven years. “It’s a pretty flimsy argument,” said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law.
“There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker familiar with Thursday’s congressional briefings and the video that was shown….
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Some uniformed personnel who watched the second strike as it happened, or saw the briefing slides afterward, were disturbed by what they witnessed, said one former U.S. official familiar with the matter. “Basically it was, why are we killing people who are stranded and pose no threat?” the former official said….
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Bradley’s meetings on Capitol Hill could be the first step toward a more formal investigation, lawmakers and congressional aides said. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also attended the briefings….
Note…
I KNOW Hegseth and Trump want this to ‘go away’ but SOMEBODY IS probably NOT telling the truth…
image…Adm. Frank Bradley makes his way to a classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post
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