Posted on 06/02/2014 4:28:48 PM PDT by servo1969
A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.
Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity — a track that led to his release over the weekend.
Bergdahl was being checked and treated Monday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany as questions mounted at home over the swap that resulted in his freedom in exchange for the release of five detainees who were sent to Qatar from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Even in the first hours of Bergdahl's handoff to U.S. special forces in eastern Afghanistan, it was clear this would not be an uncomplicated yellow-ribbon celebration. Five terrorist suspects also walked free, stirring a debate over whether the exchange would heighten the risk of other Americans being snatched as bargaining chips and whether the released detainees — several senior Taliban figures among them — would find their way back to the fight.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
When is this Lady going to wake up, does she like being Obama’s stooge?
What a racist Obama is sending this Black Lady out to the Sunday shows to make a fool out of herself time and time again.
So the first question to Obama should be,why did you trade a person you knew was a deserter and possible collaborator for 5 of the worst terrorists on the Planet?
That would give the ass the opportunity to say I ,uh uh uh,I did not know he was a terrorist ,I learned about it in the press
Benedict Bergdahl.
more like if the US traded five German Generals for one eddie Slovak.
I got the distinct impression that they were all giving obama the benefit of the doubt. Then she mentioned that Bush used the same type of discretion. Then she had on some guy who was totally spinning the side for obama. Maybe we saw it differently.
Plum down into my bones I believe the obummer to be the true and factual "Trojan horse".
I believe our government has been infiltrated, top to bottom, with people that hate American and Christianity.!
I believe if we continue to refuse to except the very facts before our eyes then the future for our nation looks VERY bad...
Lots of Mexican....Lots of Africans...A whole bunch of white folks...And plenty of hate and ammo to go around...
It's going to make the civil war look like a picnic at the park..!
This is an Obama “victory”. He will never allow the military to bring charges against this scum. He will either be allowed to remain on active duty, probably with a promotion, or get out of the service. But Obama will tell the military to stand down, no charges. You can tell Daddy is a muzzie by the beard. He has that muzzie long beard.
I turned BOR off last night. What a smug schmuck. RATs were spewing “we never leave our men behind.” Not one of them were asked what happened in Benghazi? Zero and Hillary left them to die!
“Wait until Obama finds out about this....boy I hate to be in Rice’s shoes when Obama’s mad...”
Based on Benghazi, what can position can she be promoted to now for this lie?
“To his credit, Bergdahl attempted more than one escape.”
I don’t believe that for a second.
Based on the note he left behind when he left, he was planning to be a collaborator.
Deserter. Traitor. Coward.
Spawn of America-hating terrorist sympathizers.
Possible he was traded by his new friends when they decided he had no more value to them. It is also possible he DIDN’T want to come back, knowing the trouble he faced, and the terrorists forced him to go back when they got the chance to get their senior leadership back.
Claiming he forgot how to speak English. . .riiight. . .just a ploy to garner sympathy and try and deflect the investigation into his traitorous acts.
“You can tell Daddy is a muzzie by the beard. He has that muzzie long beard”
That and all his public writing sympathizing with terrorists and hating America.
All those terrorists in Gitmo should have been executed LONG ago. There should have been no one for Obama to trade.
Good point..where’d he get the booze?
So the drunk story probably cover for truth that he’s a deserter.
Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that the article was by *the* Michael Hastings. You’re right - much more to the story.
“...It can’t get much worse than that.
Or can it?...”
Hey, he still has two and a half years left. We’ll see what he has in store for us during that span. Buckle up, it could be a bumpy ride.
Wow. When Barky reads this, he’ll be sooo mad.
Maybe it is possible that our Congress could trade one Obama for Germany’s A. Merkle. She would do a much better job as president than Obama ever could.
And Obama is probably using Common Core Math, that’s why.
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