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.
Here’s the tweet, which Robert Bergdahl posted May 28 – before his son’s release – and deleted Saturday, according to Twitchy.com.
Whatever else it might be, “God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen!” doesn’t sound like a rousing call to patriotism.
ABalkhi is the Twitter handle of Abdulqahar Balkhi, a Taliban spokesman.
It’s 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 sergeant’s captors. It’s 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 Bergdahl’s 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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“Obama knows Congress won’t face the truth about how they’re being abused so they’ll make up stories to assure themselves it’s ‘ok’.”
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Excellent and insightful post. At best, congress is in denial. At worst, its hiding is the shadows for fear of being exposed as the spinless invertebre it has become. Like a jellyfish, congress just drifts along with the currents.
Congress has been NSA’d. What are they going to do?
Agree with your points. He will do a lot more damage over the next couple of years.
Our national decline continues apace.
They’re laying low, hoping to fly under the radar as it were. I bet there are a lot of nervous people on Capitol Hill.
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