Subject: 2019 SEAL operation
The Felon gave the go-ahead. Key members of Congress were not notified (before or after). Mission went sideways, objective failed. Interesting description of the operation. Probably behind a pay-wall. Here's the conclusion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0...
A few days after taking office in 2017, Mr. Trump skipped over much of the established deliberative process to greenlight a Team 6 raid on a village in Yemen. That mission left 30 villagers and a SEAL dead and destroyed a $75 million aircraft.
When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. succeeded Mr. Trump, the gravity of the North Korea mission attracted renewed scrutiny. Mr. Biden’s defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, ordered an independent investigation, conducted by the lieutenant general in charge of the Army inspector general’s office.
In 2021, the Biden administration briefed key members of Congress on the findings, a former government official said.