Posted on 06/03/2014 8:01:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operations commanders repeatedly shelved rescue missions because they didn’t want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a “deserter,” sources familiar with the mission plans said.
Commanders on the ground debated whether to pull the trigger on a rescue several times in recent years, according to one of the sources, a former high-level intelligence official in Afghanistan, who said the conclusion each time was that the prospect of losing highly trained troops was too high a price to pay for rescuing a soldier who walked away from his unit before being captured by the enemy.
A second source told The Washington Times that the rescue operation plans were “high risk” and became even less attractive in recent months when officials in the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command grew convinced that the Taliban and the militant Haqqani network, whose operatives were holding Sgt. Bergdahl, were eager to cut a deal for his release.
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If Bergdhal did not "adhere to the enemies of the UNited States, giving them aid and comfort", no one ever has or ever will.
This is actually an interesting test case, since the facts are so obvious.
Will treason ever be prosecuted again?
They think Tea Partiers are the real traitors.
Good for you. That’s how Americans pronounce it. Kenyan, Marxist, Muslims and their minions pronounce it different.
Did you hear how Obama pronounced “Taliban”? Like Harry Belafonte sang “Tallyman” in “Day’O, the Banana Boat Song”.
Maybe Obama actually was talking about the “Tallywackers”.
With him, who knows?
I fear that soon, it will. But the definition will have changed, substantially, and thus, those whom the charge will in the future apply to, if you understand my meaning...
the infowarrior
I heard he’s in San Antonio. Probably at the Army hospital there.
Carney actually compared the Taliban to Japan, Germany and North Korea. Of course, Blitzer didn’t call him on it.
Obama will have the five terrorists say they’re even more determined to kill Americans and being held at Gitmo filled them with resolve.
Bergdahl ping.
Rush needs to have a song parody of BIRD DOG by the Everly Brothers.
“Bowee is a traitor.
He’s a Berg.
A dirty rotten traitor.
He’s a Dahl.
He’s a little coward who put
our troops in danger.
He’s a Bergdahl.
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