Posted on 06/10/2014 5:27:23 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
FInal approval for the prisoner exchange that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was made by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, members of Congress learned on Monday from administration officials.
'They indicated (it was) Secretary Hagel (who made the final call),' Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said after a classified briefing, ABC points out.
'It was the president of the United States that came out (in the Rose Garden) with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?'
Last week, Hagel said the swap was a unanimous decision when speaking to the BBC.
'It was the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of National Intelligence, Attorney General,' he said.
'It was our judgement based on the information that we had that his life, his health were in peril,' Hagel also told the channel in defense of not giving Congress 30 days' notice of the plan.
'Can you imagine if we would have waited or taken the chance of leaks over a 30-day period?' Hagel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
agree. They look more like a pee wee pop warner team.
Ha haaaaaa!!!
NOW you know why Ubama selected you to be SecDef.
You didn't think it was because he thought you were qualified, did you?
Suckerrrrrrr.
Poor Obummer. All these people telling him what to do.
Chuck . . . meet Bus. . . .
Hey, upChuck! How’s the view from under the bus?
Is our president on meth?
“...a pee wee pop warner team....”
Yes, but at the very least, the Pop Warner team TRIES to get it right.
One would think after stepping on one’s own crankshaft day after day, one’s crankshaft would finally be too sore to try it again.
Not so these brainiacs... They just double down.
Looking like the duplicitous idiots we always knew they’d be from day one.
Very early on he was blaming Bush, unprecedented for a current POTUS to blame his immediate predecessor, but for a no class narcissistic buffoon like 'O' no problem. Well into his second term now he has to expand his blame Bush meme and move on to new blame targets.
2. Previously consulted with congress
3. Swiftboating
4. It was an oversight, sorry
5. Platoon full of psychopaths
6. Taliban threated to kill
7. "What difference does it make?"
8. Stockholm Syndrome
9. PTSD 10. No evidence converted to Islam, fraternized with Taliban, and declared jihad
11. Physically abused, confined in cage
12. Racism
13. Moderate Taliban
14. “Raggedy" platoon
15. "No matter what, to leave an American behind in the hands of people who would torture him, cut of his head, do any number of things"
16. Obama broke unconstitutional law (that he signed)
17. Wasn't only soldier to 'walk off' post
18. Only tenuous link to U.S. deaths
19. “PR campaign by Republicans” ... to “muddy the waters”
20. Hagel, NOT Obama, made the final call on #Bergdahl swap, (see also #16)
Whoops.....Hagel.....the moron now slated for an Obama toss under the bus!!!
Even if true (and I do not believe for a minute it is true) it is a lie. The President of the United States as commander in chief had to approve it. So he was the last (buck stops here sort of thing) to give the go ahead. Which means he made the decision.
We are living in a surreal time. Obama claims credit for anything good that happens in this nation, and will not accept anything bad that happens (even when his fingerprints are all over it).
The main stream media needs to wake up. They have changed from “watchdogs to lapdogs” and their credibility decreases each time they defend the indefensible.
I’m surprised Obozo didn’t say “Bush’s fault.”
Hagel can’t make a decision on what suit to wear
No sale
The dems must be wishing the repubs would bring impeachment charges
It’s like a spiral
Hagel “Peter Principled” out as a SP4 in the Americal Division.
We are governed by 8 year olds.
Good list and post. Nicely done.
Hagel is so pathetic he doesn’t even come across as a credible fall guy. He is weakness personified.
Hagel saw it and immediately climbed under.
Leni
Next version, President Bush did it somehow. Not too far fetched because some at the NYT and MSNBC would believe it
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