Posted on 06/03/2014 3:29:26 PM PDT by mojito
To pull off the prisoner swap of five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House overrode an existing interagency process charged with debating the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and dismissed long-standing Pentagon and intelligence community concerns based on Top Secret intelligence about the dangers of releasing the five men, sources familiar with the debate tell TIME.
National Security Council officials at the White House decline to describe the work of the ad hoc process they established to trade the prisoners, or to detail the measures they have taken to limit the threat the Taliban officials may pose. They say consensus on the plan was reached by the top officials of Obama’s national security team, including representatives from the Pentagon, State Department, intelligence community and Joint Chiefs of Staff. “These releases were worked extensively through deputies and principals,” says National Security Counsel Deputy for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. “There was not a dissent on moving forward with this plan.”
But officials in the Pentagon and intelligence communities had successfully fought off release of the five men in the past, officials tell TIME. “This was out of the norm,” says one official familiar with the debate over the dangers of releasing the five Taliban officials. “There was never the conversation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Just Barry and Val and the NSC. Kind of a small loop.
Jihad means a lot to 0dirka.
He’s King of the world. The world approved with a Nobel for existing. We approved twice electing him. He knows none will oppose him. None that have any cred.
Translation: “Hillary wouldn’t have done this.”
Whatever President Jarrett wants, President Jarrett gets.
And then the White House is “Surprised” at the negative reception they have received fro this ill-conceived action?
I swear these people just sit around and only talk to each other. The rest of the country is a big “What-ever” between D.C. and the west coast. And that includes those people in his ‘Home-town’ of Chicago.
It’s almost as if the shadowy cabal of Leftists who snuck Obama into the Oval Office want to help America’s enemies.
A few years back there was a movie about a computer generated actress. She was a complete virtual creation that the public thought was real.
He is a creation of money, the media and leftist ideology. So too with Obama. He eats and breaths but the rest is all a made up lie.
He and his handlers actions exist in their own virtual world. Unfortunately their world of make believe has real world effects.
Something’s fishy. Time, The Daily Beast, Chris Matthews, the Associated Press and more going after Obama? Huh?
He’s “Jonathan S. Tuttle” from the M*A*S*H episode...
“There’s a little Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.”
Oh so very very true.
Hillary said she supported it...we should remind her of her support as she tries to run for ruler.
This was a criminal act and she thought it was a good idea.
Indeed.
I get the feeling she supported it, before she didn’t support it.
"The question of the release of the five Taliban leaders was a recurrent subject of debate in the administration and was a key element of the behind the scenes effort by the State Department and the White House to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. The transfer of the five was discussed as a possible confidence-building measure to pave the way for a deal. The debates over their release were contentious, officials familiar with them say."
I'd add that the outing of the CIA's Kabul station chief last week was just a little WH payback for his "contentious" opposition.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
It was the episode when here plane took fire. That changed her mind.
From the Time article:
“The question of the release of the five Taliban leaders was a recurrent subject of debate in the administration and was a key element of the behind the scenes effort by the State Department and the White House to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. The transfer of the five was discussed as a possible confidence-building measure to pave the way for a deal.”
and
“Opponents of release say absent a peace deal with the Taliban, the release makes no sense.”
Obama is trying to negotiate a peace treaty with the Taliban.
Treason being defined as "a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state".
The release of the enemy's high command in a sham exchange for an enemy sympathizer and collaborator over the objections the security apparatus of the USA displays a basic lack of allegiance by the POTUS to the United States of America.
All 57 of them.
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Did the CIA station Chief in Afghanistan dare to oppose the will of hussein?
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