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Bergdahl release arrangement could threaten the safety of Americans, Republicans say
WashingtonPost.com ^ | 5/31/14 | Karen Tumulty

Posted on 05/31/2014 7:12:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Amid jubilation Saturday over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity by the Taliban, senior Republicans on Capitol Hill said they were troubled by the means by which it was accomplished, which was a deal to release five Afghan detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Top Republicans on the Senate and House armed services committees went so far as to accuse President Obama of having broken the law, which requires the administration to notify Congress before any transfers from Guantanamo are carried out.

“Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; congress; gitmo; obama
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1 posted on 05/31/2014 7:12:53 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Just add it to the LONNNNGGG list of laws bam bam has broken.


2 posted on 05/31/2014 7:14:11 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Top Republicans on the Senate and House armed services committees went so far as to accuse President Obama of having broken the law, which requires the administration to notify Congress before any transfers from Guantanamo are carried out."

Traitorobama also gave aid and comfort to the enemy.

3 posted on 05/31/2014 7:15:49 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: driftdiver

And no one on the right in the house and senate has the balls to take him on in earnest.

Losers. Every one of them.


4 posted on 05/31/2014 7:16:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This is headlined on Drudge right now, with a smiling photo of the Traitor-in-Chief, and this headline:

LAW BROKEN: CONGRESS NOT NOTIFIED OF GITMO SWAP


5 posted on 05/31/2014 7:16:59 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“But Bergdahl wasn’t captured in battle. He simply walked off his post into the hills. Grunt forums are livid with Bergdahl, ready for him to be tried for desertion. Many, many lives were risked in the hunt for Bergdahl. Would you want to do for someone who betrayed and abandoned his brothers in arms? “


6 posted on 05/31/2014 7:17:58 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Cicero

That’s where I picked up on it.


7 posted on 05/31/2014 7:18:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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8 posted on 05/31/2014 7:20:40 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I am glad to see him finally come home. But 0bama has now given in to terrorists.


9 posted on 05/31/2014 7:22:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: SkyDancer

Not a big detour for the apologizer-in-chief.


10 posted on 05/31/2014 7:23:29 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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To: Cicero
LAW BROKEN: CONGRESS NOT NOTIFIED OF GITMO SWAP

I know, it is an impeachable offense, but he will skate again, as he always does. Just get used to it, unfortunately.

11 posted on 05/31/2014 7:29:52 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Ben Mugged

Read about the comments made by the Left wing nutter father of the deserter ,

He wants to help free all the Taliban and shut down Gitmo.

This whole thing smells like a Val Jarrett- Soros PR set up !


12 posted on 05/31/2014 7:30:40 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Laws”, in and of themselves, are meaningless without enforcement.


13 posted on 05/31/2014 7:31:55 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SkyDancer

This kid was a deserter and appears to be a Muslim convert .

This looks like Phony Soros media PR set up !


14 posted on 05/31/2014 7:32:22 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Congress should have traded the Kenyan, Holder, Pelosi, Hillary and Hopalong Harry Reid to the Taliban for Bergdahl.


15 posted on 05/31/2014 7:32:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: ncalburt

That tweet is circulating all over twitter..he says that he wants ALL Gitmo detainees released, for the Afghan children..but here is the thing, maybe the tweet was deleted from the father’s account because I went to his twitter feed(May 28th) and could not find that tweet, maybe I missed it


16 posted on 05/31/2014 7:33:53 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Blatant distraction from VA scandal
17 posted on 05/31/2014 7:34:17 PM PDT by wtd
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To: Mark17

It is unbearable that this POTUS can get away with ANYTHING because
he is black!!!! I hope if the pubbies EVER get the white house again they
do exactly the same thing and illegally do everything possible to turn the
republic back around!!! Of course this WILL NEVER happen because
our side has NO BALLS!!!!


18 posted on 05/31/2014 7:34:51 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: ncalburt

Bergdahl’s dad twitter is @bobbergdahl
He is a terrorist sympathizer. And “ameen” is seen in his timeline, which is a word included in muslim prayer. It is all too stinky for me.
oh, @CodyFNfootball is giving firsthand account about night Bergdahl went missing/left. He served with him. Very interesting.
If this is all true, Obama let 5 dangerous terrorists free for a terrorist sympathizer.


19 posted on 05/31/2014 7:36:29 PM PDT by jodster36
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To: Cicero

This SOB POTUS will do anything right now to LOOK as though he is
helping VETS he is disgusting!!!! Put our troops in jeopardy to release a
deserter!!!!


20 posted on 05/31/2014 7:38:59 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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