Posted on 12/22/2014 6:49:48 AM PST by servo1969
Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer, author of The Last Line, and Ret. Col. David Hunt joined Bill O’Reilly to give an update on the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap. Lt. Colonel Shaffer told Bill the Obama administration paid $5 billion and released five top Taliban Gitmo detainees in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
Obama celebrated the release of deserter Bowe Bergdahl with a White House press conference in the Rose Garden in May 2014.
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, who was part of the negotiations, told Bill O’Reilly the US paid out $5 billion and traded five top Taliban detainees for Bergdahl.
Bill O’Reilly: Let me just stop you. There were three trade scenarios, there were three things they could have done. You were involved to try to work that out to some extent?
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: Not all of them involved trade. One of them essentially was a direct action. One of them involved my aspect, which was not again a trade. It was something working the issue. And, obviously the one the president went with was the $5 billion to Qatar and the trade of the five Taliban.
O’Reilly: Are you surprised this report… Why hasn’t been released? The Pentagon, they’re not supposed to be political.
Lt. Col. Shaffer: Bill, I understand General Dahl, the investigating officer did an incredible job… I understand he confirmed what was in previous report… Effectively, he deserted.
Via The O’Reilly Factor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q74axlcQovg
5 BILLION?
OMG
INSANITY. PURE INSANITY!
Nailed it. This was just the cover to transfer $5 BILLION to his Islamic brothers.
Obama: The curse on America.
Bergdahl was just an excuse.
May we really don’t have a real accounting of our tax income dolled out to these clowns. Time for a full tax overhaul
Policy is usually No man left behind, but they should have left this one behind.
Come on folks. The State Department was missing $5,000,000,000 under Hillary Clinton. That money was used to pay ransom for the 30 CIA employees in BENGHAZI. Five billion is probably missing from another government department. Didn’t they just pass a bill for a big payout to the VA? Has anyone seen things greatly improve at the VA? I received a little paper card saying the VA might, or might not, pay for private sector health care. These Democrats use the Federal Treasury like a private checking account.
Even in today’s era of the mini buck, a mis appropriated 5 billion should raise an eybrow somewhere.
If the ‘leaders’ of the two houses of Congress, Boehner and McConnell, do nothing, they are fully complicit.
If Jim Hoft writes it, you can be sure it’s wrong. Sad but that’s just the way it is.
No one will even ask let alone “do” anything. BO is on a 17 day vacation and now the terrorists are killing police officers. He has all the Navy ships sitting next to each other in Norfolk waiting for his terrorist pals to wipe the USA off the map. Boehner files lawsuit which will take years to even get on the Docket. Where are all the ammunition stores the DHS hoarded? We are done unless someone in power steps up and that isn’t goning to happen.
No more....
And that is a good thing.
I say we throw in Obama and make it a fair trade.
if they really paid $5 billion or even $5, then they should all be in prison
Well somebody learned something from history.
” get a rope.”
For BOTH!
” If the leaders of the two houses of Congress, Boehner and McConnell, do nothing, they are fully complicit.”
Fully complicit for 6 LONG YEARS!!
Deserters, commies, race baiters, killers, thugs...all the people democrats value.
That said, it’s still a whole lot of money... it’s almost like Obama wanted to pay them off for something else at the same time... Benghazi knowledge?
Just wanted to update the story a bit. In addition to returning to Afghanistan the additional 4 guantanamo terrorists including the head of intelligence (if there is such a person) for the Taliban (too much sugar and caffeine—spritz cookie time) the administration also promised:
“U.S. will not target Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar after 2014 end”
Happy New Year./s
The fleecing of America continues. This is just more wealth redistribution.
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