At the local diner, to your shock you encounter….CONGRESS.
Posted on 06/03/2014 4:25:49 PM PDT by mojito
...[C]urrent U.S. intelligence and defense officials who spoke to The Daily Beast on Monday say the process for exchanging Taliban for Bergdahl this time was rushed and closely held, in some instances leaving little room for any push back against a policy clearly favored by the White House.
“This was an example of forcing the consensus,” one U.S. military official said. “The White House knew the answer they wanted and they ended up getting it.”
The White House did not even consult or inform Congress until after the prisoner release had begun. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Daily Beast, “Should we have gotten advance warning? I actually think so.” She added, “We had participated in a number of briefings some time ago [on a possible future deal] and there was considerable concern.”
At the end of the day, both Hagel and Clapper supported Obama’s decision. Hagel was willing to make the certification that the risk to U.S. interests posed by releasing the “Gitmo Five” was mitigated in part by the assurances of the Qatari government.
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But the process for getting there was rushed, according to U.S. intelligence officials. This time around there was no formal intelligence assessment of, for example, the risks posed by releasing the Taliban commanders. While some intelligence analysts looked at the issue, no community-wide intelligence assessment was produced, according to these officials.
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I doubt there was much arm twisting. Hagel was probably drunk and God only knows what Clapper was up to, he’s such a freak show....
Quite honestly folks, what’s the point of evenhaving a legislative branch? These panty-wastes are going to posture and whine and bellow, and in the end, they will do nothing.
Most of them are there for money, power and prestige and don’t give a hoot about America or Americans.
Clapper is an OUT and OUT LIAR....and Hagel is either HAPLESS or brilliantly EVIL in Pretending to be so STUPID.
Obama is Law-Less because Republican Leaders are BALL-LESS!
I think like the poster above Hagel was drunk.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE??
“Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...”
They knew she would roll over like a two bit progressive whore with a little bit of whining on how they didn’t appreciate all she had done for them.
Hagel is as big a moron as Barry and Clapper is just bad news.
According to Ed Meese, `The Pony’ was one of Reagan’s favorite jokes. So here it is, a little break from the latest bit of Obama nonsense.
“The joke concerns two twin boys. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities - one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist - their parents took them to a psychiatrist.”
“First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. ‘What’s the matter?’ the psychiatrist asked, baffled. ‘Don’t you want to play with any of the toys?’ ‘Yes,’ the little boy bawled, ‘but if I did I’d only break them.’”
“Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. ‘With all this manure,’ the little boy replied, beaming, ‘there must be a pony in here somewhere!’”
A five year American POW is recovered and it stinks up the joint.
He won’t speak English. It looks like he deserted, they don’t want him and in exchange we gave the enemy five first round picks.
Obama signed an act and says he won’t do what he just did: break that law.
Something good has got to come out of this latest pile of O-crapola ....
I mean, the hits just keep on coming from Obama lama ding dong.
Does his party, do the Donks have any control over him at all?
`rats, hello? Any love at all for your country?
Anything?! Hello?
Ferris? Ferris Buehler?
Anyone there? No?
crickets
At the local diner, to your shock you encounter….CONGRESS.
well put.
Ah, yes, I know of this magic "consensus." It can lower the sea level too!
“Hagel was willing to make the certification that the risk to U.S. interests posed by releasing the “Gitmo Five” was mitigated in part by”
If just one of these sub human monsters they released harms a single American Chuck Hagel should pay for that cerftification with his life.
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