This was all planned. He shipped his computer and "stuff" home and wrote emails.
The parents computers should really be retrieved as evidence.
There never was a trade. What did America get back of value?
For Barack and his brethren, he gifted the globe well rested terrorists to renew their attacks on western man.
For America? Nothing, excepting we will have a government sanctioned terrorist and his peers walking amongst us.
This guy, like Michelle Obama, denied America.
...and we wonder why we are failing.
It was a great deal for El-Presidente, he got 6 enemies of the USA and civilization freed with one deal.
Chuckles is an idiot. How did ever get to the point we have a clown show of this magnitude. Sebelius and healthcare. Clinton and Rice and Benghazi. Holder and Fast and Furious. Lerner and the IRS. Shinseki and the VA. Obama and Rice and Bergdahl. Incompetency is everywhere you look.
It used to be that the press had to dig deep to find a scandal and they didn't really amount to much. Now big scandals are just laying there to be scratched to the surface and no one wants to bother.
Something else that really annoys me about this so called POW trade is the insistence of the administration that such “trades or exchanges” are normal.
While prisoner exchanges have occurred in almost every war that the US has participated in, often involving neutral third parties (nations), this current exchange is highly abnormal from a historical standpoint.
Beside the obvious issues of the status of the exchangees (terrorists/UN declared war criminals versus AWOL at best/Deserter at worst US soldier) the trade is bizarre in others ways....
Irregular troops, partisans, terrorists and war criminals have never been subject to prisoner exchanges because they do not have status as “prisoners of war”. The Taliban arguably can be considered “irregulars” and by the United Nations own dictates, at least some of them are “war criminals”.
Historically prisoner exchanges almost always involve trading personnel of roughly equal rank. In other words I exchange you a general for a general or a major for a major. Enlisted personnel are usually exchanged in groups (which I understand is not possible in Bergdahl’s case). I cannot find another instance in American history where an American enlisted soldier was exchanged for even one high ranking enemy commissioned officer much less five of them. I realize the Taliban personnel traded are not commissioned officers but I am equated them a similar value because of their status in the Taliban organization.
Maybe I’m wrong on this...anybody have any examples of this ever happening to US military personnel ??