I think David Cameron of the UK came off of his vacation and this event was specifically referenced. So there might be something to the idea that Obama returned for this reason.
Ok, this is it. Obama knew this was coming and was in communications or negotiations for a while. There was a deadline given, which was obviously yesterday. When the facts come out, and they are now saying they knew of this prior......prior to what? Answer........prior to THE vacation. He can now say he returned to DC to attempt to stop this but to no avail.
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Or there was a planned military operation to rescue the journalist, which went bad or didn’t happen. The PREZ had to be in the situation room,. Wasn’t there a thread claiming seven spec ops guys were captured?