[jazusamo]

Hagel/0bama is a liar. On the one hand he says they didn't negotiate but on the other he says they didn't notify Congress as required by law because of a timeline.

[Eddie01]

Guess the timing of the simultaneous releases on both sides was just a coincidence then... I buy it. /s

[smoothsailing]

“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists,” Mr. Hagel said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I said and explained before, Sergeant Bergdahl is a prisoner of war. That’s a normal process in getting your prisoners back.”

Hagel, you friggin moron. We are at war with the terrorists, you released five of them. What did you get in return? Bergdahl.

You're right about one thing, this was no negotiation. It was a capitulation, you might as well have surrendered.

[Logical me]

How about maybe listening to what some of us are saying. America is now controlled by the communists Democrats with King Obama at the leader. King Obama is a communists black Muslim. Nothing now or within the next few years can stop the conversion to a dictatorship. Lots of talk and hearings but they will do nothing. Have they worked so far?

[tumblindice]

`US didn't negotiate blah blah blah' Sumpin' smells lak da Dixie Chicks alla da sudden!

[moovova]

Five Taliban fighters swapped for one lame-azz US traitor?

Yea...I wouldn’t classify that as negotiating either.

[Starstruck]

Next we will trade another group of terrorists for magic beans. Congress will not be informed because the magic’s best by date is just about up.

[TigersEye]

Another traitor!

[rollo tomasi]

"Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the U.S. did not negotiate..."

There were negotiations or just a flat out uneven prisoner exchange by a "deserter". Either way Obama and his shoeshine boy Hagel are incompetent and not to be trusted.

The only hope in this fiasco is if these 5 Taliban prisoners were tagged (I highly doubt it with the feckless leaders we ultimately vote for) but I think the 5 would be relegated to morale boosting "agitprop" anyway and not allowed "in the inner circle" anymore.

[zerosix]

Riiiiiight and the sun doesn’t rise in the East and you know the rest......

[Timber Rattler]

What a liar. Just wait until it is confirmed very soon that Bergdahl deserted and turned-coat.

[darkwing104]

“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists,”

Hagel has betrayed the trust of John McCain, he can't be trusted by anyone.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Chuckie and Bam are skating on really thin ice. Its impeachment time.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists,” Mr. Hagel said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

All of the above statements--including Secretary Hagel's assertion that the US did not negotiate with terrorists--are about equally sensible...

[dfwgator]

[Bryanw92]

He’s right. We didn’t negotiate. We capitulated. We surrendered. Well, WE didn’t. Our Marxist, muslim-fearing government did. It doesn’t care what we think.

[andyk]

Mr. Hagel said the U.S. is dealing with terrorists and hostage taking all the time and that the release wouldn’t encourage terrorists to take American soldiers prisoner or hostage.

That's it, Obama administration, just keep saying the opposite of reality, and allow the media to be your mouthpiece.

[PieterCasparzen]

That depends on what your definition of the word negotiate is. is.

[nuconvert]

Oh, I get it.....Apparently, the five terrorists released were just inprisoned enemy fighters and not really terrorists.

[BRK]

I saw Susan Rice on Candy Crowley. She said this guy was released because of a video.

[plain talk]

Mr. Hagel said the U.S. is dealing with terrorists and hostage taking all the time

Uh ... dealing with terrorists IS negotiating with terrorists.