Posted on 06/03/2014 10:02:03 AM PDT by Red Steel
" John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl Follow If confirmed, this would be a bit of a game-changer. 9:52 AM - 3 Jun 2014"
That’s putting it mildly.
If this report from Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is true, the Bergdahl affair just got a whole lot stickier:
"Jenna Lee ✔ @Jennafnc Follow Great reporting from @JenGriffinFNC - new report: Berghdal left behind a note renouncing American citizenship...developing... 9:43 AM - 3 Jun 2014"
"David Shor @IshYimini Follow
OMG. https://twitter.com/jennafnc/status/473852493286633472 … he left us behind. This is a game changer. He should be happy we didn't drone him. 9:53 AM - 3 Jun 2014"
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
How can this be? Didn’t Baghdad Sue confirm that he served with “honor and distinction”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGe0uP7W-c&t=30s
Jay Carney is already doing that. “We’ve been fighting this war for over a decade.” Implying this needed to get done so we can get out of Bush’s endless war.
He has a point. Renouncing his citizenship via note is like declaring bankruptcy by climbing onto your roof and yelling out, "I declare bankruptcy!"
But we get your point. This Bergdahl guy is a turd along with his hippy family.
John Boehner
(in part)
“More than two years ago, Members of Congress were briefed on the possibility of such an exchange, and the chairmen at the time and I raised serious questions to the administration. Unfortunately, the questions and concerns we had were never satisfactorily answered and they remain today. At the time, the administration deferred further engagement because the prospects of the exchange had diminished. The administration provided assurances, publicly reiterated by the White House in June 2013, that its engagement with Congress would resume if the prospects for an exchange became credible again. The briefings in late 2011 and January 2012 were highly compartmented to ensure the safety of Sergeant Bergdahl and to preserve space for diplomatic negotiations. While press reports at the time citing administration sources revealed that the White House was considering this prisoner exchange, Congress kept the serious ongoing policy and ethical discussion with the administration private. There was every expectation that the administration would re-engage with Congress, as it did before, and the only reason it did not is because the administration knew it faced serious and sober bipartisan concern and opposition.
“The administration has invited serious questions into how this exchange went down and the calculations the White House and relevant agencies made in moving forward without consulting Congress despite assurances it would re-engage with members on both sides of the aisle. I support Chairman McKeon’s call for hearings on this matter.”
S Smith • 9 minutes ago
WH apologizes to Senate intel chief for prisoner swap secret
Feinstein told reporters that she received a call from Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken on Monday evening apologizing for what the administration is calling an “oversight.”
“I had a call from the White House last night, from Tony Blinken, apologizing for it,” she said.
“He apologized and said it was an oversight,” she added.
Feinstein also said leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence panels were almost unanimously against a prisoner trade when it came up in 2011.
She said the chairmen and ranking Republicans of the “connected committees” spent a lot of time in 2011 reviewing the possibility of a prisoner swap and came out firmly opposed to releasing senior militants from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Continue... http://thehill.com/policy/defe...
ooopps!
ah got ya
and as such he can be court martialed.
Ok makes sense
If true, the least problematic supposition is that the U.S. did not set out to obtain Bergdahl’s release. The likelier scenario is that the Taliban was seeking the release of its people and offered up Bergdahl as cover for Obama. The question is then, why were we negotiating with the Taliban in the first place and what was the real quid pro quo?
You can’t simply say: “I renounce my citizenship.” and then not become a US citizen.
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True, but it is an extremely incriminating statement and admission against interest as proof that he intended to desert permanently from his unit while on the battle field. A capital case of desertion in my book and a slam dunk to convict. However, I’m certain high level ‘command influence’ is already in the works.
Obama needs to turn on the news and find this out
“Bad optics...very bad.”
It seems they thought they could get away with doing this as a yellow ribbon affair. Makes no obvious sense when it was common knowledge up and down the chain that this situation was toxic.
Now Hillary comes out saying it was tough, but the right decision. Some have suggested that Benghazi blackmail is going on. That might explain it.
It’s a Call Back thing.
Conservative Military Heroes:
George Washington
General Patton
US Grant
Liberal Military Heroes:
Bradley Manning
Che
Bergdahl
“Benghazi blackmail”
hmmmm.......
Yes, there is some speculation on it over at Belmont Club:
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/06/02/to-the-rear-march/#more-37071
If you go through the comments you will find some suggesting it as an explanation -— although some think the idea is ridiculous.
Who Says We Can’t Go Home America? Who Says? ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CeX5VEo10c
I didn’t read through all the thread so this may have been said already...
LISTEN CAREFULLY... There are NO game changers when it comes to this administration...
NOTHING WILL COME OF THIS! Who is going to hold the administration/Obama accountable?
Obama could declare martial law and that he is a dictator and he would still garner a 40% approval...
Unbelievable. This just gets better and better. Peeling the onion.
Actually I think Obama did what he did because,
1. No one can say he left anyone behind.
2. He wanted to get rid of the terrorist in Gitmo, Congress would not permit it, so he did it on his own.
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