Posted on 06/02/2014 4:28:48 PM PDT by servo1969
A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.
Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity — a track that led to his release over the weekend.
Bergdahl was being checked and treated Monday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany as questions mounted at home over the swap that resulted in his freedom in exchange for the release of five detainees who were sent to Qatar from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Even in the first hours of Bergdahl's handoff to U.S. special forces in eastern Afghanistan, it was clear this would not be an uncomplicated yellow-ribbon celebration. Five terrorist suspects also walked free, stirring a debate over whether the exchange would heighten the risk of other Americans being snatched as bargaining chips and whether the released detainees — several senior Taliban figures among them — would find their way back to the fight.
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Pinging you to Maggie’s links.
More connected dots
maybe we got lucky and they did a pre-release physical on the detainee’s and shoved a GPS up their rears... it could happen....
Firing Squad???
And disability payments, and likely a movie deal.
What we really need is an American who loves this country the way that Putin loves his.
She's right -- he served the Taliban with "dignity".
BRANDED! Scorned as the one who RAN!
WHAT do you do when you’re BRANDED....
‘Cause you’re one of the TALIBAN????
Where is Chuckie Smuckie Schumer now? How about Dirty Dick Durbin? Dirty Harry Reid? Hillary? Bill Clinton? Nancy Pelosi? Diana Feinstein?
CRICKETS!!!!!!
Of course, that doesn't mitigate the circumstances regarding the shipping home of his uniform and various personal items, if that's a true story. And it wouldn't surprise me if it WAS!
There is a good chance that he is a double agent. According to some he taught some of his captors how to make IEDs.
I have a feeling he wonl;t be showing his face in public anytime soon, until the requuisite , nationalist socialist plastic surgery has been completed. This whoole episode is designed to demoralize the military and put it into public disrepute.( Clearly we will need Obama’s touted ‘private army!’ A now planned politically motivated military force annexed to DHS, the equivalent of the Gerrman SS.)
People like Bergdahl will be its plank members.
sure, AFTER it's skinned alive... 8^)
Sounds like Obama too.
Hey Susan Rice, you liberal POS, that's great, now we have a traitor with "dignity". I'm sure he graciously served his Taliban fellow terrorists with "dignity" as he taught them how to build & detonate more effective IED's.
You RAT bastard demoCRAPs!!!
- “We still got our Muslim terrorist/collaborator back!” - Barack Hussein Obama Junior
“I AM CALLING FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF THIS HORRIBLE AND CRIMINAL PRESIDENT NOW!”
Yeah, well tell the Senate.
According to the team leader in charge the day he walked off, he had information that Bergdahl went to a nearby village, and asked for someone who spoke English, so they could lead him to the Taliban.
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/03/team-leader-bowe-bergdahl-wanted-to-talk-to-taliban/
Amen to that! I am 60 yrs old, and just once in my lifetime, just ONCE, I wish that America would somehow stagger out it's self-induced, American idol stupidity and elect a hard-nosed, rock solid, conservative, Christian, patriotic American to be president of America.
Either that, or to have a knock-down, drag out, bloody battle CW 2 against the liberals, homos, islamics, special protected minority groups, and create our own America, with 15-20 southern & western states. I am from MN and will move to one of these states in a heartbeat if it happened like that.
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