Much more likely:
This swap plan was super iffy.
The nightstalker and all of Obama’s other whacko lefty lickspittles at the very top of DC LOVED the idea, and every time they bounced it off of someone in DC with practical FIELD EXPERIENCE they got HORRIBLE feedback:
“You guys are freaking nuts, this would be a boondoggle we’re trading bullion for poop…”
The Regime decide they need the impression from their top man in Kabul and for security reasons they fly there to have a powwow in person —he blanches and LOATHES the swap plan, and he screams exactly that in so few words.
He won’t stop screaming it.
They compromise the KabulScreamer via the GollyWhoopsEmbarrassingSlipUp route and he’s PNG’ed from the ‘Stan:
Their top guy has to leave Afghanistan, but The Regime has succeeded in getting rid of a prominent obstacle.
The proceed with the Swap From Hell, and, Presto..!
Everyone in the military hates it, and everyone walking down Main Street, USA.
Here’s why I think there’s something else to it:
It’s not a swap.
Bergdahl was likely training the Taliban in US tactics and methods. There seems to be plenty of evidence of that. One big piece of evidence is that he’s alive. That’s apparently a first.
It’s not a swap. It’s something like what FDR did with the Brits in WWII with the ‘Lend-Lease’ thing:
1. You give us a US ‘prisoner’.
2. I’ll give you back your top 5 guys.
3. I’ll give you cash.
The ‘prisoner’s’ last act of treason is to agree to be swapped. Even Bergdahl’s dad has apparently gone Islam. Bergdahl comes home a free man. No court martial, $300K in back pay, and a promotion.
As I type this I don’t, maybe can’t, believe it. One thing I DEFINITELY don’t believe is that Obama is stupid. They aren’t. He won in 2012. Sorry, but you can’t be stupid, have the record he did in his first admin and win.
As such, a journalist needs to look at this.
This was not a swap. I don’t think it was a swap.