CH said entire National Security team reviewed CH’s letter covering transfer, and were in full agreement with contents.
Of course, no one in Congress could see it.
Says they met the threshold of the 2014 Defense Authorization Act—threat of detainees was substantially mitigated.
Now weasel wording how this action was consistent with all of America’s actions in the past pertaining to POWs.
Which is utter dreck.
Now Hagel is pulling the Vietnam card. Disgraceful.
He’s cocky and condesending...I hope the Pubs fight back.
CH waxing on about Vietnam, 1968, experiencing war, blah,blah,blah.
War is dirty business, don;t want to deal with these realities.
Faced with unpleasant choices.
Hard choices(there’s that term again) have to be made.
Hagel says President has constitutional authority to protect American citizens and soldiers, and that’s what he did.
Says he has always been transparent with this committee as SecDef,that’s what I demanded when I was on the other side as a Senate.
Circumstances surrounding my decision were imperfect, Prez is same decision.
Says he met with the special operators who retrieved Bergdahl, took risks to “recover one of their own”
Sorry, folks, can barely wade through all of this BS.