Navy Adm. Frank Bradley told lawmakers Wednesday he was open to the broader release of the video of the U.S. military’s early September lethal strikes against an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, apparently bucking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said a day earlier that the Pentagon would not release the full video of the mission to protect classified information.
Bradley, who was in charge of the Trump administration’s opening boat strike salvo on Sept. 2 and is now the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) commander, briefed members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees Wednesday in the Capitol on the controversial operation, in which 11 “narco-terrorists” were killed, including two individuals who survived an initial strike and were clinging to the wreckage.
Unlike Hegseth, who authorized the operation, Bradley expressed openness to having the video of the Sept. 2 strikes distributed more broadly, according to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who attended the briefing.
“Adm. Bradley supported releasing the video and said that there is no reason why it can’t be released. Obviously, it has to be edited to make sure that there are no sources or methods disclosed, just as every other video that’s been released has been edited,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who sits on the House Armed Services panel, told reporters after the classified briefing.
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