@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 01:52:34
After years of following orders with clear rules of engagement and with congressional authority, targeting jihadists in rural and urban settings,
Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley was put in command of a legally murky attack on Sept. 2
targeting a boat in the Caribbean that the Trump administration says was smuggling drugs.
And in ordering a second strike that killed two survivors who were clinging to the burning wreckage of the boat
— something his superiors say they di…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-03 01:40:43
Trump and Hegseth Comments on Boat Strike Leave Adm. Bradley Exposed (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/admiral-bradley-boat-strikes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p158#a251202p158
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-01 15:20:20
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115820386909186674
It's like one of the best movies ever made—a real tour de force of style and admiration for movies. And it's super funny.
@ber@osna.social2025-12-01 16:35:38
Neben einer #Email-Renaissance wäre auch eine #RSS-Renassiance oder #AtomRenassiance prima.
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-02 03:08:32
Hegseth will find out that the initial bombing is also very illegal, this hiding behind an admiral won't save him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strik…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-10-03 07:02:55
Heute vor 39 Jahren: Am 3. Oktober 1986 explodierte ein sowjetisches U-Boot, die K-219, 770 km östlich von Bermuda. Mit 16 #Atomraketen & 2 Druckwasserreaktoren an Bord sank es später im Atlantik. #Gorbatschow informierte
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-03 02:46:11
The evidence that Sect'y of Defense Hogsbreath has committed war crimes and murder is accumulating rapidly.
He will, of course, try to put the blame on an admiral - who will give evidence that he had been ordered to do the dirty deeds.
And we can predict with almost certainty that El Cheato will issue a pardon.
But that still leaves the Congressional power to impeach Hogsbreath. And it leaves open the door for civil actions - such as wrongful death actions by the famil…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-01 22:45:38
White House says admiral approved second deadly boat strike (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/white-house-second-boat-strike-00671488
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p93#a251201p93
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-01 20:28:14
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115646177502527147
So this admiral, according to Leavitt, ordered helpless people , hanging on the side of the boat after the first strike, to be killed in "self-defense".....
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 14:50:39
White House Throws Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-boat-war-crime_n_692df3a9e4b0c8c3c7ce9cda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p38#a251202p38