Posted on 03/26/2015 8:26:51 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
This is a theory first floated (to my knowledge) by bestselling author Brad Thor, whose piece I linked last week. Now the Washington Free Beacon has tracked down a senior US intelligence official who effectively endorses the idea as not just plausible, but likely -- a conclusion buttressed by his extensive experience dealing with the Haqqani network. Some context: Prior to his release, Bowe Bergdahl was being held by members of the Haqqani network, a US-designated terrorist organization. Haqqani and the Taliban are not one in the same, with the former group acting as a crime syndicate with a radical Islamist agenda. They're "80 percent Tony Soprano and 20 percent Al Qaeda," is how Thor put it in a telephone conversation last week. According to this official, Haqqani would be more interested in being compensated monetarily than in a prisoner/hostage trade, especially one in which they were not the primary beneficiary. Recall that of the five jihadi commanders freed in the deal, four were Taliban, and only one was (arguably) primarily Haqqani. Fox News also reported that the US paying a cash ransom for Bergdahl was under discussion as recently as December, so this isn't purely or baselessly speculative:
The ransom plan was reportedly abandoned, but the intelligence official insisted that there is reason to believe that cash changed hands as part of the deal. “The Haqqanis could give a rat’s ass about prisoners,” the official said, referring to the Haqqani Network, a designated terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were freed in exchange for Bergdahl’s release. “The people that are holding Bergdahl want[ed] cash and someone paid it to them,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Yes.
cash for clunkers...yes
obama is giving the Iranians billions of dollars to build nuclear bombs to use on us so yes he did pay money and release 5 terrorists to the Haqqani terrorists for Bergdahl.
So Obama gives up his bishops, castles and one knight to recover a white pawn that went over to the dark side. (No way Obama gives up his queen)
I quickly scanned the original article, and didn’t spot what popped into my mind when reading the excerpt.
Remember the missing 6 million from the State Department? Wonder if there is any connection?
Obama already paid money to the enemy after our defeat at Benghazi.
The enemy killed our head man there, and had zeroed in on the CIA building. They told Obama he could buy the freedom of the CIA employees and the release of the Ambassador’s body. He did it.
We shipped weapons, armored vehicles and night vision equipment to Libya where it was mysteriously stolen. There has been no court martial for the person who let that stuff be stolen. I saw court martials threatened over three missing .45 rounds. This kind of stuff gets stolen and nobody is in trouble. Baloney.
I think that the amount missing is 6 billion.
I think the first report of this I heard was that the wh lost million(s”) by giving that sum to a group that claimed responsibility and then absconded with the first payoff.
‘Millions for tribute, not one cent for defense.’
The Office of the White House Press Secretary
“I think that the amount missing is 6 billion.”
I believe you are correct.
You are correct, and thank you for noticing my error. Hard to imagine not being able to locate six billion dollars.
It can be located, probably has been, will remain “classified” so that we will never know.
yes..... $5 BILLION WAS PAID VIA QATAR ....in addition to the release of 5 top level al queda
the $5 billion was usd to TRAIN ISIS.... and if that is not TREASON then what is ???????
There have been persistent rumors that yes, they did.
But in the present criminal behavior by the Hussein regime, forget FOIA from the "most transparent regime in American History."
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