Posted on 06/10/2014 12:07:39 AM PDT by kingattax
Between 80 and 90 administration staffers knew about the trade of five Taliban leaders for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl even though Congress was kept in the dark, CNN reports, and members of both parties are unhappy about it.
During a classified briefing to the entire House of Representatives late Monday afternoon, White House officials said that up to 90 people had prior knowledge of the trade.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon called that news "disturbing," partly because of the high number who knew and partly because the White House has been saying it didn't inform Congress until after the swap was made because it feared Bergdahl's life might be in danger if there had been a leak.
McKeon, a California Republican, told CNN he wants to get an exact number of those who knew and their names.
"My question to them was, if you don't know who knew, then how could you if a leak had happened and the sergeant had been killed how could you go back and find out who leaked?" McKeon said.
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More compelling evidence of unaccountable marxists operating under the guise of “government”. Thanks very much for posting.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
What is even more astonishing is that 80-90 people in Washington knew something big and were able to keep it secret.
Usually, Washington leaks like a sieve.
Taliban Mullah in Chief Hussein Obama has chosen Secretary of Defending the Taliban Hagel to continue to make Grand Bargains with Gitmo Prisoners so that Gitmo can be closed on the last day that all US Military Personnel finally abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban.
If the greens and T-off areas had TVs tuned to TV news channels, he might find out what is going on in the world.
Val was right we can by-pass congress and they do.
Any questions how the November elections will go.
If Congress does absolutely nothing about this, every damn one of them, regardless of which side they represent, needs to be OUT. GONE WITHOUT any “retirement”. They are no better than odumbo himself and conspirators to treason.
“I can’t watch FOX because they bring on idiots like Juan Williams, Alan Combs, Beckel etc.”
No kidding. If I wanted to listen to complete buffoons, I’d turn to one of the other junk news channels to get my fill.
My father told me he wished they made a TV where you could reach through and slap the person who’s speaking. Colmes and Juan Williams would be his first two.
OUT and gone indeed but to many liberals keep voting the wrong way and to few of the sane ones don’t vote reason seems to fail them maybe we have to play the lefts gam vote and vote often it works for them.
We can pray, without ceasing, but I think Obama and his ilk have damaged the country too far.
Time to call for a miracle and some good men and good women to aright the ship of state.
They are very afraid of Jarrett.
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