First question. Was any money involved?
Can we get the latest version of The List, please?
I want testimony from the CIA guy that was outed.
Is Hagel going to fall on his pocket knife?
The Haqqani network of local Afghan Mafiosi held Bergdahl.
The Haqqani network doesn’t even LIKE The Taliban.
Why did Haqqani Mafiosi exchange Bergdahl for Taliban Leaders they would shoot if they caught them?
I'm sure we're not allowed to monitor it. So how many CIA dudes to we have running around Qatar now?
Chuck....Why isn't Karzai speaking to us?
Who in their right mind trades a PFC that walked away from his post for five Taliban generals?
Afghanistan will suffer most from the release of the 5.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/02/us-afghanistan-usa-bergdahl-idUSKBN0ED0I620140602
(Reuters) - The Afghan president is angry at being kept in the dark over a deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured U.S. soldier, and accuses Washington of failing to back a peace plan for the war-torn country, a senior source said on Monday.
The five prisoners were flown to Qatar on Sunday as part of a secret agreement to release Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who left Afghanistan for Germany on the same day.
The only known U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Bergdahl had been held captive for five years.
“The president is now even more distrustful of U.S. intentions in the country,” said the source close to President Hamid Karzai’s palace in Kabul, who declined to be identified.
“He is asking: How come the prisoner exchange worked out so well, when the Afghan peace process failed to make any significant progress?”
Even Al-Jazeera has problems with release of Taliban War Criminals:
To add insult to injury, on May 31, five high-ranking Taliban members incarcerated at Guantanamo on a variety of charges, including mass killings, were set free in exchange for one US soldier, allegedly a deserter. The question on the minds of the Afghan people now is: Whatever happened to the US policy of “we will not negotiate with terrorists”.
In February, 65 prisoners were released from the high-security Bagram detention centre, in spite of US protests. The men were allegedly responsible for the deaths of Afghan civilians and coalition troops. Afghan President Hamid Karzai claimed there was not enough evidence against them, but the US called the move “regrettable”.
If the US found the release of these 65 detainees so unpalatable, how could it have freed five of the Taliban’s most dangerous leaders last week, who will now live in luxurious Qatar?
One of the so-called “Guantanamo Five” is Mullah Fazl, who has been described as “vicious and violent”. In 1999, he was one of the senior Taliban commanders who were accused of overseeing the destruction of an area near Kabul called Shamali. Fazl allegedly supervised the burning of villages and other atrocities, including rape. On my visit to the area, I witnessed the scale of the destruction, and a local commander told me how over 300,000 villagers were chased out during Fazl’s campaign.
We applaud the US policy of not leaving any soldier behind. But does this policy apply to one who allegedly deserts his post and walks off into the night into known enemy territory? What about the six brave soldiers who - according to CNN - lost their lives looking for the alleged deserter? Do their lives not count in the grand scheme of things? And what about the multitude of Afghans who have been murdered by these five men and their followers?
The US statement that these five men will not be allowed to leave Qatar for one year is hard to stomach. They may not venture out of Qatar, because they will be under strict surveillance, but they will be free to move around the country as they wish.
Hagel will appear hung over from last nights vodka bender. Make sure he’s sworn in so his lies are under oath.
Thanks for posting this!
‘The Taliban is in the House.’ You know,—the White one.
Proof of Live video — January 2014.
Trade/exchange — June 2014.
[Did they get a Proof of Live for June? Apparently not. So, how did they know Bergdahl was still alive, since he seemingly appeared to be weak and ill in the January video?]
Hagel is doing the ole dipsy-doodle fast-foot shuffle.
Transgender Chuckie falling on his sword for his “messiah”. What a jerk.
Someone on the committee needs to ask Hagel whether any money changed hands.
There have been rumors/speculation that upwards of $1 to $5 million may have been a part of the ‘exchange’.
Bottom line (assuming he’s telling the truth): “The Tolly-bahn demanded that we violate US law by not notifying congress, and we of course complied with that demand.”
Either Hagel acted outside his authority, or, he is calling the president a liar...
Either or, it cannot be anything else...
I do see another presidential pardon being typed up and signed, to be delivered as Obama leaves office...
Along with pardons for Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, etc etc etc...
That drawer, in our desk, he is using in the Oval office, is getting pretty full of those things...
extremely weak questioning by Buck Mckeon
Hagel’s right index fingernail is black. Did Obama or Brennan get a hammer after him befor the hearings?