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2024-06-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Retired Four Star Admiral Arrested for Bridery: From 2020 to 2022, Robert Burke, 62, was a four-star Admiral who oversaw Naval operations in Europe, Russia, and most of Africa
[ConservativeTreehouse] Consider this indictment against the backdrop of a totally politicized Department of Defense.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Not to be too naive but isn’t this essentially business as usual? Why single this Admiral out?
Posted by Airandee 2024-06-02 06:30||   2024-06-02 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Perhaps as a much younger man, he once visited a whore ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-02 06:36||   2024-06-02 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to go back to the ratio of general officers we had back in '41-'45 when we had a heck of lot more in the ranks than today.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-02 07:11||   2024-06-02 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh no! Not for Bridery!
Posted by Bobby 2024-06-02 08:10||   2024-06-02 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a sad commentary that my first reaction was "Who did he piss off" rather than "Good, they got the SOB".
Posted by Mercutio 2024-06-02 08:44||   2024-06-02 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Look at who has been running these operation--not the finest. The same people who put "woke in the military" on steroids. The same people who have enriched themselves at the public trough for a couple of decades or more.
Posted by JohnQC 2024-06-02 09:30||   2024-06-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Bear in mind the guys prosecuting this are the same ones that just watched the 'Fat Leonard' bribery case go down the pipes.
As in, reversed and expunged. (Yep. All of them.)
Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-02 10:02||   2024-06-02 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 As in, reversed and expunged. (Yep. All of them.)

You're sh1tting me! Apparently not.

Put me in the "Who did he piss off?" camp.
Posted by SteveS 2024-06-02 13:11||   2024-06-02 13:11|| Front Page Top

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