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SHOCK REPORT: US Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bergdahl (Video)
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 12-22-2014 | Jim Hoft

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.

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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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; bergdahlransom; bowebergdahl; obama; qatar; taliban; taliban5
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To: servo1969

What is so shocking about it? Is there anyone who knows what the muslim that occupies the White House surprised or taken back by this? Or anything else he says or does for that matter. At one time I had hoped that the Republican Party would stand up for the Constitution, then I came to my senses.


61 posted on 12/22/2014 11:37:26 AM PST by sport
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To: rodguy911

Thanks for sharing the link... Somehow I’m not surprised...

http://www.local10.com/news/che-guevara-portrait-seen-in-background-of-alan-gross-photo/30297074


62 posted on 12/22/2014 11:54:38 AM PST by GOPJ (I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I think this is one of the reasons there’s no actual budget. The money just vanishes.


63 posted on 12/22/2014 11:56:22 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: LucyT

guess is time to get something for our five bills


64 posted on 12/22/2014 12:02:01 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: headstamp 2
This thing here if true

Well, we have a "free" press.

How is it that we don't KNOW for sure?.

Here's an idea, how about some reporter ASK the WH the question?

Better yet,the GOP could hold Congressional hearings!.

65 posted on 12/22/2014 12:20:06 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: exit82; LucyT; maggief

exit82 wrote:
“Maybe now we know why 6 Billion dollars is missing from the State Dept. accounts under Hillary.

If this is true, Obama needs to be in jail right now.”

thanks for the ping, LucyT!

OK $5 billion went to pay for the Deserter, so who got the other $1 billion?

When did the $6 billion go missing?


66 posted on 12/22/2014 1:51:39 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: LucyT; servo1969; All

Thanks for the ping; post; thread.

TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, media-complicit, representative-enabled, ongoing...


67 posted on 12/22/2014 5:31:06 PM PST by PGalt
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To: servo1969; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
I have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


68 posted on 12/23/2014 7:16:08 AM PST by null and void (Will the obama love story be called Broke Barack Mountin' or The Love That Dare Not Say Hussein?)
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To: servo1969

Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?


69 posted on 12/23/2014 8:33:18 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: null and void
EVERYTHING obama does...

...is destructive in some way to America.

Totally agree with you, Nully. It's perhaps the single most glaring aspect of Obama's time in office. In six years, there isn't a single thing he's done that has positively affected the lives and fortunes of American citizens.

Not one.

On the contrary, it can be demonstrated that every act, and every word uttered by this man, has reduced or injured this nation's survival potential in one way or another.

70 posted on 12/23/2014 8:59:11 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: servo1969
So we can pay 5 Beeeelllion for a deserter, but Grandma has got to die for the state because the state will run out of money for their single payer healthcare........


71 posted on 12/23/2014 9:14:16 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Vermont Lt

gotta Kill grandma so we can send 5 Beeelion to the Taliban...

72 posted on 12/23/2014 9:17:27 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

ping


73 posted on 12/23/2014 4:48:44 PM PST by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: pepsionice

“...accepting a check for military hardware (maybe tanks or helicopters), and then they paid the excess money out to the Taliban middle-guys...”

That would account for the $200 hammers and $1500 toilet seats.


74 posted on 12/23/2014 4:52:47 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: null and void

precisely


75 posted on 12/23/2014 5:58:08 PM PST by Nifster
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To: servo1969

Billion here,

Billion there,

it could turn to some Real Money.


76 posted on 12/27/2014 11:16:30 AM PST by Big Red Badger ( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
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To: servo1969

NEW REVELATIONS: The U.S. Paid 5 Taliban Leaders for Bowe Bergdahl – But That’s Not All…
http://conservativesunited.com/obama-administration-gets-caught-in-big-lie-about-bowe-bergdahl-hostage-trade/

When President Obama traded five Taliban prisoners for the release of captured U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in May, many Conservatives were up in arms. Revelations made today in the New York Times may invite even more anger. According to report Bill Gertz, the administration also offered the Taliban a ransom payment...


77 posted on 01/02/2015 7:02:25 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: servo1969

ANY OTHER “President” would have already been impeached.

John Boehner is helping Obama out at every turn and in every way possible.

Dump Boehner. Impeach Obamaroids!


78 posted on 01/02/2015 7:17:33 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Traitors in our midst. Joe McCarthy was right. Traitors.


79 posted on 01/02/2015 7:24:29 AM PST by ogen hal (First Amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: servo1969
i just saw this story. there aren't enough tables to be flipped

what can $5 billion get you?

- 50,000 suicide bombers @ $100,000 ea
- 21 billion rounds of ammo (1000 Rounds of 7.62x39mm Ammo by Tula - 122gr HP @ $235 ea)
- 2,000 ZTZ-99 tanks
- 5 million RPGs
- 200 F-15A

if you're wondering... yes, whoever authorized that money committed treason.

the bigger question is...

how many US service men will it cost?

80 posted on 01/14/2015 1:01:49 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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