USN Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley testified to Congress that US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth ordered the US military on 2 Sep to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has distanced himself from the fallout of the U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean on Sept. 2, which killed 11, as Adm. Frank M. Bradley has come under scrutiny. Here's what to know about him:
-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) Dec 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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USN Admiral Bradley testified to Congress behind closed doors the eleven victims were on an internal list of narco-terrorists who US intelligence and military officials determined could be lethally targeted. This detail was not previously made public. These XJKs are an intelligence "no-no," as interrogators can not debrief corpses. Moreover, these XJKs pervert the course of justice if these suspects were indeed suspected criminals and denied their day in court to fight the allegations.
The second strike on the boat was indisputably a clear violation of the laws of war and therefore a war crime, similar to Russian and Israeli military atrocities committed against Ukrainians and Palestinians.
Earlier this year Congress had an opportunity to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf for illegally attacking Iran, like these unlawful strikes, but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) torpedoed the initiative.
Ironically, in 2016 second rate Faux News TV tumor Pete Hegseth repeatedly brayed about Dummkopf Trump issuing unlawful military orders. And last year Florida Attorney-General Pam Bondi sternly warned that US servicemembers should not follow unlawful orders, such as committing war crimes:
"Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders. The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members are required not to do so."
Source: Hypocrisy Rules Wash DC
As Doc Sarvis sagely pointed out earlier today, Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Qatar combined.
"Progressives and Liberterians held hands and pointed out to everybody that the AUMF allowed presidents to declare groups terrorists and start blowing them up"
Start blowing them up in accordance with the laws of war, rather than under the framework of a police action.
It's that "laws of war" part that is the issue here.
The U.S. "War" Against Venezuela: The Racial Imagination of Self-Defense and the Brown Latino Subject
Framing TdA as "narco-terrorists" is an attempt to justify violence as self-defense under international law.
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