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Monday, December 08, 2025

Sen. Mark Kelly scoffed at the possibility of facing a court martial as he ridiculed President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth as unserious people.

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Sen. Mark Kelly said he has read the Justice Department's classified legal rationale for destroying alleged drug boats and that it should be released. If he truly believes the public deserves to know, he should read the memo into the Congressional Record.

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-- Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press) Dec 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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... Just days before the Dec. 10 deadline for the Navy's secretary to report to Hegseth on any military case against Kelly for taking part in a video Trump has labeled "seditious," the Arizona Democrat said he hasn't heard from the Pentagon, and nothing substantive from the FBI.

"We got something from the FBI. We got one thing. It didn't even have a point of contact on it," he said Dec. 5 after a town hall event in Tucson.

"That's how unprofessional this (Justice Department) has become." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-07 02:57 AM | Reply

Everything the clown show trump criminal cabal does is performative art for his idjut base.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-08 09:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I saw Sen Kelly saying that he has faced tougher situations than this one.

Mark Kelly - Naval career
en.wikipedia.org(1987%E2%80%932011)

... Naval career (1987"2011)

In December 1987, Kelly became a naval aviator and received initial training on the A-6E Intruder attack aircraft. He was then assigned to Attack Squadron 115 (VA-115) at NAF Atsugi in Kanagawa, Japan. He was deployed twice with VA-115 to the Persian Gulf aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway, which was homeported at Naval Station Yokosuka in Yokosuka, Japan. During Operation Desert Storm, Kelly flew 39 combat missions.

After the Gulf War, Kelly received his master's degree and then attended U.S. Naval Test Pilot School from 1993 to 1994. As a naval aviator and test pilot, he has logged over 5,000 hours in more than 50 different aircraft and trapped over 375 carrier landings.[1]

During his Navy career, Kelly received two Defense Superior Service Medals; one Legion of Merit; two Distinguished Flying Crosses; four Air Medals (two individual/two strike flight) with Combat "V"; two Navy Commendation Medals, (one with combat "V"); one Navy Achievement Medal; two Southwest Asia Service Medals; one Navy Expeditionary Medal; two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons; a NASA Distinguished Service Medal; and an Overseas Service Ribbon.[1][11] ...



How's your popcorn supply doin'?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 09:26 PM | Reply

Apologies for the messed up link.

drudge.com seems to have issues with WikiPedia links.

Go here, and scroll down a bit to the what I quoted...
en.wikipedia.org


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 09:31 PM | Reply

When is Admiral Bradley facing a court martial?

Either he obeyed or issued a blatantly illegal order.

Apparently, he lied to Congress too.

Court martial him NOW.

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-08 10:49 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Admiral Bradley ...

His under oath testimony was interesting.

In my experience, I look at the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War, and how many tried (lied?) to try to cover up that atrocity.

Eventually, the truth prevailed.

Which leads me to ask, will the truth eventually prevail here?



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 10:59 PM | Reply

Interesting ...

Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
www.politico.com

... Congress is using its marquee defense bill to force the Pentagon into turning over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America.

Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos.

The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, calls for "unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command" to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. ...


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 01:37 AM | Reply

Are the Republicans in Congress finally growing a spine?

imo, too soon to tell, but worth watching.

Get yer popcorn ready ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 01:39 AM | Reply

One wonders if Trump will expand his "brownshirt" army, and find a way to enlist many more people into ICE, to try and gain voters for the midterms. Hitler took a disheartened German people, gave the poorest Germans uniforms and guns and both a homeland enemy, Jews, and an external enemy,Europe ,that had defeated Germany in WWIl.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-09 08:04 AM | Reply

Kelly is most likely spot on.

Kegsbreath is like any other bully and is afraid of someone who will stand up to him.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-09 10:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#5

Honestly, it's probably best to wait until 2029 for that. The tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing, cheeto-faced sh*tgibbon would probably just pardon him.

#11 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-09 12:14 PM | Reply

@11 Ferrets are cute.


#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-09 12:29 PM | Reply

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