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Timeline reveals Bergdahl was a cover story for Obama [Main goal was to release Taliban commanders]
American Thinker ^ | 04/02/2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/02/2015 7:20:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Investor’s Business Daily has put together facts to demonstrate that the release of Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity was just a ruse to provide cover for President Obama to release the Taliban commanders, a goal he had long pursued.

Here is the timeline they provide:

January 2009: Obama signs executive order calling for Gitmo to be shuttered within a year, while his national security team considers if five Taliban leaders are safe for release.

2011: White House and State Department officials open secret talks with the Taliban in Germany and the Persian Gulf to discuss their release from Gitmo as part of "peace talks."

Jan. 3, 2012: The Taliban announce they are prepared to open a political office in Qatar to conduct peace negotiations in exchange for the release of the Taliban commanders. ("The releases would be to reciprocate for Tuesday's announcement," according to "The Guardian.")

April 2012: Working with the White House, Karzai sends delegation of Afghan government officials to Gitmo to interview the Taliban prisoners and secure their oath to cut ties with al-Qaida.

("On the issue of the release of the Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo, we are fully in support of that," Karzai says during a July 9, 2012, visit to Japan. "If they wish to go to Qatar, we want them rejoined with their families.")

Those oaths are worthless, of course, and all this took place before Bergdahl was on the agenda. As IBD writes, Obama faced resistance to his plan:

The original Taliban Five deal fell apart as Obama met stiff resistance from the U.S. intelligence community. And it proved too politically radioactive to sell to Congress. It was only after U.S. intelligence shot down his amnesty plan as too risky that Obama conjured up the Bergdahl swap.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; obama; prisonerexchange; taliban
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To: The Final Harvest

Don’t know how true it is but a friend was on the beach, in Hawaii, right in front of this house. She swears it’s a gay beach. It would be fitting for Barry. He wouldn’t have to travel too far for his fun.


21 posted on 04/02/2015 8:49:05 AM PDT by surrey
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To: surrey

Well .. good luck with that rumor.


22 posted on 04/02/2015 8:54:09 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: surrey

If it’s a gay beach, Moo won’t be living with him there. She’ll take Sasha back to Chicago with her.


23 posted on 04/02/2015 9:08:44 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: null and void; Diogenesis; Old Sarge; sickoflibs; Liz; G Larry; SkyDancer; blackdog; ...
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.

There are NO counter examples.

You're right on this null and void - there are no counter examples.

24 posted on 04/02/2015 9:19:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (Winning is passing on YOUR values despite the growing totalitarian state...Greenfield)
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To: blackdog
Rules for Radicals contains a flaw in it's concepts. That being it's focus on singular issues, never letting go, and targeting, ridiculing, and isolating your opponents. By doing so you may be able to achieve a goal or cause based issue, but you cannot govern or sustain a government with such methods.

Alinsky never came up with rules for governing...his rules were to destroy the 'establishment'... Also Alinsky in his Woodlawn Organization was quick to drop things that weren't working. He didn't reject ideas before they were tried - but if a plan wasn't drawing people to it he let it die... Then moved on to the next idea or plan.

25 posted on 04/02/2015 9:23:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Winning is passing on YOUR values despite the growing totalitarian state...Greenfield)
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To: bgill

They’ll spend as much time together as Bill and Hil. I think Mooch will head for NYC. She likes hobnobbing with the hoi- poloi and since she’s a “fashion icon”, where else but NY.


26 posted on 04/02/2015 9:51:06 AM PDT by surrey
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To: GOPJ

That’s the very funny thing! An Alinsky-ite in government has a real problem. Government cannot drop things that aren’t working. They just throw more money and rescources at it. Obama keeps moving on to his next big plan, but the wake he leaves behind brings along thousands of government agents demanding to implement failed concepts of “nuanced ideas” governing outside of a three co-equal branch system.


27 posted on 04/02/2015 10:16:43 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: GOPJ

To anticipate any Obama policy you need only ask:

“What would Satan do?”


28 posted on 04/02/2015 12:16:27 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: CMailBag

I detect no defecation here, Mr Holmes!


29 posted on 04/02/2015 12:17:18 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: G Larry

Barack Obama - the John the Baptist of the Anti-Christ.


30 posted on 04/02/2015 12:17:57 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

N.S. Sherlock.


31 posted on 04/02/2015 12:47:38 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: sakic

Posted often and by multiple sources.
Scroll down to the Admiral Lyons interview.

>http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/benghazi-part-of-obama-plot-to-free-blind-sheik/<


32 posted on 04/02/2015 7:29:55 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: SeekAndFind
How do these treacherous bastards figure they will escape imprisonment?.

The HARD RIGHT WING is coming, and they don't accept race cards.

33 posted on 04/02/2015 7:33:02 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: GOPJ

Basically; a lifestyle of PROTESTING.

That is ALL the left is - protesting.


34 posted on 04/02/2015 8:05:37 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

Maybe ‘having a tantrum’ is a better term for what they do...


35 posted on 04/03/2015 8:01:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (DHS has the same budget as the USMC and has TWICE their headcount - - freeper gaijin)
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To: GOPJ

Yeah, it does pretty much look like that.


36 posted on 04/03/2015 10:52:12 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: G Larry

Incredibly long article that has people saying I have never heard that but I can’t say it’s impossible.

That’s a couple of levels below reporting.


37 posted on 04/03/2015 10:42:36 PM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic

Remember, Obama tried several times to release the Sheik and received strong push-back from all quarters.

The Bergdahl case simply illustrates the lengths to which he’s willing to stage fake trades, to facilitate the releases he’s tried to do unilaterally.

See my tagline....


38 posted on 04/04/2015 9:47:59 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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