 During the 2012 presidential election, Bradbury served as an advisor to Mitt Romney's campaign on matters of national security law.In the wake of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures, Bradbury testified before Congress and authored several editorials in defense of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, including the collection of telephone metadata.In June 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to become General Counsel of the United States Department of Transportation.