“reprogram a mobile phone into an IED.”
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Gee, I know that today’s phones are pretty smart, but programed to explode? I assume that he means programed to be a trigger for an IED.
>> Bergdahl taught Islamist fighters how to reprogram a mobile phone into an IED.
If that’s true....
The most serious thing would be to take up arms against his fellow US soldiers. My question is why would he come back?
If all this is true he will be isolated from the media on the pretext of health issues, given another promotion and all his back pay, swing a sweet book deal, be feted on all the TV talk shows, and run for the Senate.
Fox News is...unimaginative...because “as serious as I can imagine” is the Taliban infecting Bergdahl with Ebola (2 to 21 day incubation period before symptoms begin showing) during which time he’s met with the President and many layers of the military and civilians in parades and the like to spread the virus.
This just gets worse all the time. This is worthy of conviction in the Senate & even a criminal court.
The more I read about this the more I am convinced that Bergdahl’s father was also involved with this.
Bergdahl’s father was in contact with Bergdahl the entire time he working with the Taliban.
1. This specific trade -- Talibani leaders for Bergdahl -- has been on the negotiating table for at least three years.
2. Yet, the Obama administration has had to know the whole story on Bergdahl from the outset.
3. They also evidently went to the trouble of "sanitizing" the Bergdahl file that was exposed to Congress over the past three years. Saxby Chambliss said there was no "desertion note", nor mention of one, in the file he saw. Nor were there any reports based on interviews with his fellow soldiers. So far as Congress was allowed to know, Bergdahl was simply "missing" and a "captive".
4. They appear to have counted upon the military hierarchy and the non-disclosure agreements, coupled with their lapdog press, to keep Bergdahl's real status from becoming known to the public.
5. For some unknown reason, they rushed the exchange to completion without advising Congress. Whether it was to offset the bad PR stemming from the VA Scandal, I don't know.
6. Now, the thing has blown up on them -- because the Pentagon is leaking and the soldiers have talked. Plus, the lap-dog press smells blood in the water.
However, recognize that, apparently, getting Bergdahl back has been every bit as important to the Obama administration as getting their five thugs back was to the Taliban!
Why?
And, now that the desertion (defector?) cat is out of the bag, they are sticking with their story -- even though it is patently obvious they no longer have a case (and that they actively tried to mislead Congress).
Bergdahl himself, not Bergdahl as a symbol, is somehow very, very important to these people. Or, perhaps, it's the elder Bergdahl who is important -- or some people he is connected to.
Something else is going on here...there is whole 'nother level to this affair.
what I don’t get , and from what I am reading , is that if we knew where he often was being held ( in Pak) and felt sure he had not only deserted , but was also collaborating and advising the Taliban/Haqqanis , why we did not lay an air strike in on him/them and just utterly destroy the entire lots of them , including the traitor ? It would have been great loss . No one would have ever known his fate, or if the Talib had reported it , we could just say “ Oooops !”
Why was he allowed to live and collaborate , for so long ?
Whose screw up was that ? Where was our sharp sword ?
Notice how well shaved he looks? And doesn’t seem emaciated.
It’s late at night.
My nightime meds are kicking in.
Before I went to bed I was going to say something important and relevant and clever in response to this new info about Bergdahl, but my mind simply won’t stop thinking of him (and his father) as “Beard’n’all” [Beard-and-all].
In my current state it does sound kinda close to “Bergdahl” if you sort of slur it all together with a Southern drawl and don’t listen too closely. But then, I’m a highly trained professional at these sorts of things, and suggest strongly that you don’t try this at home unless you have someone with you who knows what they are doing.
I believe this scandal is finally one that has legs, and that it will still be there in the morning, strutting around like Travolta in Saturday NIght Fever. We’ll pick up where we left off then. Sweet dreams.
bttt
Obama went to Afghanistan, ‘accidentally’ outed our highest CIA chief (and thereby anyone who worked for him) and then announces this ‘deal’ for the 5 worst of the worst Taliban leaders, and the hosts a press conference where the father recites a Muslim prayer after announcing he son cannot speak English, then reverts back to English for the rest of his speech.
Why is our Military not arresting him? (oh, that’s right- he’s been purging the top Generals)
The Taliban guy PATTING Bowe on the arm, like a friend or father would, and Bowe CRYING like he doesn’t want to leave!!!
Why not......who said he can’t?
I wonder if we’re going to see more You Tube videos from the Taliban showing Bergdahl training them to make better IEDs.
this story is so out of control. It’s amazing no one in the Senate or Congress has the balls to actually do more than a sound bite. Jeebus, people.