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[Thumpalumpacus]

This whole double-tap thing gets more bizarre with each passing day. Now, Admiral Bradley has said that the boat in question wasn’t head to the US at all, but was trying to rendezvous  with a larger vessel that was bound for Suriname and transfer its drugs to that boat. Bradley justified the second strike by saying there is always the possibility that drugs in Suriname could eventually wind up in the US. This despite the fact that your DEA says that trafficking routes through Suriname are almost always destined for European markets.

At first, I was upset about Bradley being thrown under the proverbial bus. Now, I’m not so sure.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/...ke-bradley

Boru

Right, over the last couple of days he's seemed fine with marching in lockstep with Hegseth. That will probably result in his not being prosecuted. He's gone from "left holding the bag" to "carrying water for" in 48 hours.

Something's rotten in Denmark and it ain't the Havarti.

[The Grand Nudger]

They all know exactly what they're doing.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't normally post stuff both here and AD, but this merits an exception because it's spot-on:

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) took his criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a step further Friday, claiming the Pentagon chief’s recent decisions have “ruined his credibility.”

“I’ve been on the record already,” he told Politico’s Dasha Burns, who also hosts “Ceasefire” on C-SPAN. “After Signalgate, I think I’ve seen enough. What I really wanted to see was someone take responsibility — own to a mistake.”

“And then when he blamed the media or the, you know, the journalist for the story, it just — it ruined his credibility,” he added.

The Nebraska Republican noted that Hegseth “had some issues” going into confirmation hearings, after President Trump tapped him to lead the Pentagon. But, once he was confirmed, Bacon continued, he wanted to give the former Fox News host “a fair chance.”

“But I — what I’ve seen is what I call just poor decision-making,” the lawmaker, who will retire at the end of the term, told Burns.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/56367...criticism/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't normally post stuff both here and AD, but this merits an exception because it's spot-on:

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) took his criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a step further Friday, claiming the Pentagon chief’s recent decisions have “ruined his credibility.”

“I’ve been on the record already,” he told Politico’s Dasha Burns, who also hosts “Ceasefire” on C-SPAN. “After Signalgate, I think I’ve seen enough. What I really wanted to see was someone take responsibility — own to a mistake.”

“And then when he blamed the media or the, you know, the journalist for the story, it just — it ruined his credibility,” he added.

The Nebraska Republican noted that Hegseth “had some issues” going into confirmation hearings, after President Trump tapped him to lead the Pentagon. But, once he was confirmed, Bacon continued, he wanted to give the former Fox News host “a fair chance.”

“But I — what I’ve seen is what I call just poor decision-making,” the lawmaker, who will retire at the end of the term, told Burns.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/56367...criticism/

(Bold mine)

Translation: screamingly incompetent. 

Boru