Posted on 06/01/2014 7:16:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
A Twitter posting by the father of the serviceman released from Taliban captivity Saturday in exchange for five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay is raising deep questions about what exactly the Obama administration did to get Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl out of Afghanistan.
Heres the tweet, which Robert Bergdahl posted May 28 before his sons release and deleted Saturday, according to Twitchy.com.
Whatever else it might be, God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen! doesnt sound like a rousing call to patriotism.
ABalkhi is the Twitter handle of Abdulqahar Balkhi, a Taliban spokesman.
Its important to remember the elder Bergdahl posted the message while his son was still in captivity and might have been willing to say anything while talking to the sergeants captors. Its also unclear whether the tweet was intended to be public.
But the contents of the posting are making a lot of people suspicious.
The circumstances of Bergdahls capture are already odd no one knows why he left that Army base five years ago and a USA story published Saturday shows Bergdahl is thought by many in the military to have either deserted or gone AWOL.
Also, the release of Guantanamo Bay terrorists in exchange for him violates a longstanding U.S. policy of not negotiating at least publicly with terrorist organizations. It also violated U.S. law that requires Congress to receive 30 days notice before Gitmo prisoners are released, according to top Republicans on the House and Senate armed services committees.
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The evidence is amassing. Enough to mire the president in more controversy and scandal, but as if this is the whole point.
The administration is boldly fast tracking to the implosion of Constitutional law.
He has to be impeached and removed from office. He begs for it now, openly.
The islamists who are now directing the White House have once again been able to do the maximum damage to US interests at the time of their own choosing. Anyone still think they are just a bunch of hapless idiots who keep succeeding despite themselves?
Mr. niteowl77
Obama would give away all of our nuclear secrets if he could. And maybe he can, with the compliant military brass we seem to have these days.
Two years left and counting. God help us.
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This is just one of many cases and a continuing trend of expanded use of executive power. Violate a law here, another law there, bypass congress, impose regulations by agency mandate, legislate on the fly, refuse to testify, etc. Get the populace used to the idea of absolute and arbitrary rule.
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This is why Hillary would be much more dangerous if elected in 2016 than I think she would have been if elected instead of Obama. Obama has set a precedent of lawlessness with no checks/balances or anyone stopping him. The level of lawlessness has blazed a path through previously “uncharted waters” that it will be easy for Hillary to follow. I don’t know that she would have had the guts to do all that Obama has done if she’d been elected instead of him. Obama needs to be impeached and removed from office - IMO, that’s the only way to stop this lawless behavior by him and future presidents. Will it happen? Not a chance - the political will, integrity and backbone to do it are not present in Congress, nor in the country because his power and popularity flow from his skin color.
“It also violated U.S. law that requires Congress to receive 30 days notice before Gitmo prisoners are released,”
Let’s see what congress does in response. Their past refusal to slap down an executive who does as he damn well pleases is noted.
This swap just theater to give Obama cover for releasing the five terrorists.
Once the noise from this one dies down he will find some other way to justify realease of more of his fellow Islamists.
One wonders how much “aid and comfort” the “Captured Person” provided to the people who gave him shelter.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff will be all over this case like stink on dog poop......poop dropped at the South Pole and sniffed at the North Pole.
How can the JCOS live with themselves? They are like leftovers in a backed up White House toilet.
yep
I think this kid was a plant and the whole thing was to get prisoners released. I don’t trust any thing that is comming out of the Whitehouse. It is the same tactic that was attempted by kidnapping a Ambassador to gain release of the Blind Sheik.
Am I wrong to think that there will be a Military Inquiry regarding the Soldier’s actions prior to his capture?
Well, at least we know the going rate for paying off Kidnappers, five to one. Place your bets, the Dam has burst.
Errrr...you mean the JCOS appointed by the Puppet?
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansI have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
This one is a), c) and d)...
From page 261 of his book "The Audacity of Hope" by Barak Hussein Obama...."I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Leni
...while Ubama traded his deserter son...
...for some seriously bad dudes.
What video will Ubama blame when US soldiers and citizens are kidnapped for more trades?
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