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Stockman to Obama: Did you pay terrorists?
The Bay Area Citizen ^ | June 5, 2014 | Rep. Steve Stockman

Posted on 06/05/2014 12:06:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I put nothing past this man.
1 posted on 06/05/2014 12:06:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he did, it wasn’t because he “had” to, it was because he wanted to!


2 posted on 06/05/2014 12:07:41 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve heard we paid 5-6 million.


3 posted on 06/05/2014 12:08:37 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Money has been part of the discussion.

date: Feb 18, 2014: Obama administration 'to offer Taliban 5 Gitmo prisoners in exchange for last Afghanistan POW Bowe Bergdahl who has spent four years captive'

"The Taliban offered to release him in exchange for $1 million and 21 Afghan prisoners."

4 posted on 06/05/2014 12:12:47 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Haqqani Network generally does not release Westerners unless they receive a large payment.

Sounds like the Mexican Government.

5 posted on 06/05/2014 12:13:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: mmichaels1970

Aiding and abetting if true. This could be another historical first.


6 posted on 06/05/2014 12:13:57 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good. The question needs to be asked and must be answered.

One thing though: “renumeration” isn’t a word, “remuneration” is.


7 posted on 06/05/2014 12:15:13 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Ray76

1,2,4,3,5,6

1,2,3,4,5,6

“renumeration”


8 posted on 06/05/2014 12:17:15 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: samadams2000

What does it matter? Congressional eunuchs won’t do anything about it.


9 posted on 06/05/2014 12:17:22 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The big guys response will be to give the letter to the irs and have them do something about it.....

Does the congressman really think we live in a constitutional republic, with a president who respects the constitution and the law?


10 posted on 06/05/2014 12:19:09 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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“Why yes, Steve. I used taxpayer $$$ from the shovel-ready fund.”


11 posted on 06/05/2014 12:19:26 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The US has been paying the Haqqani network at least once a week for many many years for security of the overland resupply logistics network.

Not even an open secret, it’s been widely reported and documented etc for years and years.


12 posted on 06/05/2014 12:19:57 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: MrB

Yeah yeah I thought of that :)


13 posted on 06/05/2014 12:20:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; xzins

My guess is that if he was being held by the Haqqaini Network, then the 5 Terrorists were just cover for the ransom money. IOW the Terrorists were just released to cover up the fact that we paid these guys a huge ransom.

Personally I think Bergdahl was living the happy life of a Bedouin jihadist wannabe and doing his 5 daily prayer rug butt raises when he was asked to do a mission for Allah and found himself being handed over to the enemy.

He sure didn’t look like a happy camper when that helicopter arrived.


14 posted on 06/05/2014 12:21:38 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The US owed them room and board for taking care of this lost and confused soldier.


15 posted on 06/05/2014 12:24:39 PM PDT by grania
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The Ghazi has a unlimited checkbook and will do whatever to aid his under privileged brethren , the poor downtrodden talliban who are seeking to destroy the west.

Actually the poor downtrodden muslims irrespective of where they may be

We can see that in his “trade” which had no benefit for America.


16 posted on 06/05/2014 12:26:38 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: P-Marlowe
My guess is that if he was being held by the Haqqaini Network, then the 5 Terrorists were just cover for the ransom money. IOW the Terrorists were just released to cover up the fact that we paid these guys a huge ransom.

Brad Thor made this suggestion last Sunday, and Oliver North followed up with something similar on Tuesday or so.

I think this looks suspicious, as well. But, I don't think that even the Obama administration is going to admit to it, and hid any payment very deeply. It's probably not going through the US banking system at all: someone in FINCEN would find it and all it would take is one patriot to leak it.

17 posted on 06/05/2014 12:31:21 PM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: grania
A report from Oliver North on Breitbart has it that $5-6 million was paid.

Oliver North: I Know a Ransom of $5-6 Million Was Paid to Free Bergdahl

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/06/03/Oliver-North-I-Know-A-Ransom-5-6-Million-Was-Paid-to-Free-Bergdahl

18 posted on 06/05/2014 12:32:20 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In regards to the headline, my only comment is to link this other headline

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/4/state-dept-misplaced-6b-under-hillary-clinton-ig-r/?page=all


19 posted on 06/05/2014 12:33:20 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: mmichaels1970

When you pay for something you get more of it. Look at the Somalian pirate industry.


20 posted on 06/05/2014 12:34:39 PM PDT by forgotten man
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