Posted on 06/10/2014 7:55:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The last question asked at Monday night's closed-door briefing of members of the House of Representatives was a simple one: Who made the decision to transfer five top Taliban officials held at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for the return of the Taliban's lone American POW, Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl?
According to Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services committee, the Obama administration's briefers told he gathered House members that the person responsible for the decision to make the deal was not President Obama but Chuck Hagel, the secretary of defense.
"Now wait a minute, are you saying it was Secretary Hagel that made this decision, or was this the president of the United States?" McKeon, a California Republican, said to reporters. "It was the president of the United States that came out with the Bergdahls and took all the credit. And now that there's been a little pushback, he's moving away from it?"
The administration's claim that Hagel, not Obama, made the decision is at odds with what Hagel himself said on Meet the Press on June 1. "I signed off on the decision," Hagel said. "The president made the ultimate decision."
If the Obama administration is trying to put distance between the president and the deal, that appears to be the only thing House members learned at the hour-long briefing
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Yep….throw old Chuck under the bus. He’s too stupid to catch on.
Obama is disgusting.
Lies,lies,lies!
Get them out of office and in jail. It's the only way the planet can begin to heal itself......
Passing the blame didn’t work in Nuremberg either.
What a pack of losers.
I pray that the good people of America eventually wakes up before it is too late. Obama’s EO’s and pen can destroy our home before the next two years have passed. 2014 elections are more important than ever.
Scooter Libby needs a cell mate named Hussein!
When did Dubya change his name to Chuck Hagel?
Obama saw himself and the Bergdahls on the News in the Rose Garden and was SHOCKED
So the Lie Hut is saying ole Chuck here is the only one with a sense of “sacred duty”?
Gee, why don’t I believe the Lie Hut...
“And if he ever gets another chance like that, Hagel will take it again.”
Thus sayeth the soebarkah...after he claimed it was him.
So’s Chuck if he thinks he was going to be treated any better than THAT!! He deserves it and worse.
‘Put not your trust in kings.’
EVERYONE is going to walk away from THIS ONE covered with s^%t!
...good?
Obama and his SEP generator... (Somebody Else’s Problem) generators...
Obama’s generator has got to be smoking and belching out a rather large cloud of smoke by now...
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem
If I were Hagel, I’d quit immediately and tell the news media why!
“The buck stops here!” - Harry S Truman
“What buck? I never saw a buck. The buck never got here. Bush must have taken the buck.” - Barry H. Obama
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