What We Know About Admiral Frank Bradley and What I Think We'll See If He's Questioned in a Bipartisan Hearing

[Amaryllis]

https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/what-we-know-about-seal-team-six

What We Know About SEAL Team Six Admiral Frank Bradley
…and What I Think We’ll See If He’s Questioned in a Bipartisan Hearing

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #674: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
You’re living through something almost no American ever sees in real time:

A sitting four-star admiral…
A man who climbed every rung of the most elite ladder in the U.S. military…
A former SEAL Team Six commander turned SOCOM boss…

…suddenly finds his entire legacy hanging on one day…one decision…and one sentence:

“Kill them all.”

That…according to multiple reports…is what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered during the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean…an order that allegedly resulted in an initial missile strike…two survivors clinging to life… and a second strike that killed them.
Legal experts are already saying…out loud…what most of Washington is trying not to say on camera:

If the second strike killed defenseless survivors…that would be a crime under U.S. and international law…war or no war.

And the White House has now confirmed that the man who called in that second strike was Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley.

The operation…the memo that supposedly justified it…and the chain of command that produced it are all headed toward bipartisan hearings that could reshape how Americans see their military…and their would-be strongmen.

Before that circus begins…I want you to understand exactly who Bradley is on paper…
…and what I believe you’ll see when the cameras swing to his face and someone finally puts him under oath.

Much more at link. You won't see this anywhere else.

[Deuxcents]

1. Thank you..bookmarked

[markodochartaigh]

2. When

I was a child my parents told me to be careful of the company I kept. Hanging around with the wrong type of person, I could find myself in trouble quickly.

It seems like it would be incredibly difficult to spend your entire adult life dedicated to a career and then through no fault of your own find that you were in a position where you were likely to find everything for which you had worked compromised by loyalty to the wrong sort of leader.

But most of life's problems are best avoided by not getting yourself into an impossible position in the first place. It seems that Admiral Bradley was a strong Trump supporter. It is often pointed out that Trump's maga supporters are the poorly educated and the poor. If they can be expected to realize how their support for Trump compromises their situations then so can Admiral Bradley.

[gab13by13]

3. Everyone in the chain of command

needs to be held accountable.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[Frasier Balzov]

5. The Admiral is probably under orders to take the blame.

Trump can pardon him and give him a medal.

The real solution is a Democratic Congress.

Everybody can see that.

[AZJonnie]

6. He won't need to pardon him because nothing will happen to him in the first place

Even if he "takes the blame". Nobody who swings from Trump's nuts is going to be held accountable for ANYthing in the next 3 years. He could even outright say "Yup, it was my call" and Hegseth will say "Great, now carry on Admiral!" and that will be that. The prosecutors at the Pentagon won't do squat, and by the time 3 years passes, nobody will care anymore.