So report James Rosen, by way of the IJR.
Seems this guys questionable status should have been known to the White House. there is in fact no way Obama could NOT have known, in fact.
And so the American people deserve straight answers… and well know the minimal chances of that happening with the Obama administration. But perhaps more important, are the questions of this Gold Star mom…. “…was this guy worth my sons life?”
Susan Rice was the babe the regime used to push the lie that the Benghazi attack was somehow provoked by an obscure internet video. Now Rice is pushing the lie that Bowe Bergdahl was captured on the battlefield. Bergdahl captured in 2009. The Pentagon concluded by 2010, that Bergdahl simply walked away from his unit, from Fox News:
A Pentagon investigation in 2010 concluded that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit prior to his capture by the Taliban the year before, a finding that led the military to curb any high-risk rescue plans, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
A former Pentagon official told the AP that the evidence presented in the investigation was “incontrovertible” that Bergdahl had left the unit when he disappeared on June 30,
Time for Rice to sit down and shut up.
2009.
I withdraw my earlier suggestion that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl deserves a prison cell in Fort Leavenworth. Rather he deserves a holding cell, and the to be lined up against a wall.
When the regime wants to trot out a lie, they trot out Susan Rice, from Weekly Standard:
President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, said on ABC that Bowe Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction” and that “Sergeant Bergdahl wasn’t simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield,”
video:
As Rices says, Bergdahl indeed did pay a high price for five years of Taliban captivity. However better men than Bergdahl did a far higher price, the ultimate price.
Rebuttal from Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard:
“That’s not true,” says Specialist Cody Full, who served in the same platoon as Bergdahl, and whose tweets over the weekend as @CodyFNfootball offered an early firsthand account of Bergdahl’s departure. “He was not a hero. What he did was not honorable. He knowingly deserted and put thousands of people in danger because he did. We swore to an oath and we upheld ours. He did not.”
And more from ABC News:
A Special Forces operator confirmed to ABC News the account of Bergdahl’s walking away by Bethea, the general and other soldiers, including the substance of an emotional anonymous testimonial posted online in the comment section of the Rolling Stone article, purportedly written by another soldier who served with Bergdahl.
And uppingr that stakes from desertion to treason, from James Rosen, Fox News:
A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban — has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of “a major classified file.”
In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.
Snark of the Day from J. Christian Adams:
“The law is a suggestion to this crowd, and usually a nuisance. Law is something to be twisted and reinterpreted. When it stands in the way of progressive policies, it is something to be ignored. The singular theme of the Obama age is lawlessness.”
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.
From the IJReview, we find some interesting tidbits about this prisoner swap…
Reports are flying around the president’s unilateral transfer of “the last American POW” in the Afghan War for 5 dangerous Gitmo prisoners.
Here are 11 stories that will give you a sense of the controversy and questions swirling around this news:
1. President Obama Almost Certainly Broke the LawPresident Obama did not consult Congress when making the transfer of 5 Taliban commanders at Gitmo for Bowe Bergdahl.
The Washington Post raises questions about whether the president violated the law regarding terrorism policy:
Congressional Republicans and others focused on a series of concerns that are likely to reverberate in coming days: whether the deal breached U.S. policy forbidding negotiations with terrorists, whether sufficient safeguards were in place to ensure that the released Taliban prisoners do no further harm to the United States and whether Congress was informed about the prisoner trade, as required by law.
2. The 5 Taliban Commanders Released Were Among the Most Dangerous at Gitmo
Numerous publications note that these detained terrorists were among the worst at the facility. The Daily Beast gets to the point:
The five Guantanamo detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for America’s last prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, are bad guys. They are top Taliban commanders the group has tried to free for more than a decade.
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According to a 2008 Pentagon dossier on Guantanamo Bay inmates, all five men released were considered to be a high risk to launch attacks against the United States and its allies if they were liberated.
3. Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl are Making Claims He Was a Deserter
CNN’s Jake Tapper reports that soldiers who served with Bergdahl are calling him a “deserter,” not a “hero”:
“I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,” said former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”
Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
4. Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl Signed Non-Disclosure Agreements Not to Reveal What Happened
Again, from CNN’s Jake Tapper:
Many of Bergdahl’s fellow troops — from the seven or so who knew him best in his squad, to the larger group that comprised the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division — told CNN that they signed nondisclosure agreements agreeing to never share any information about Bergdahl’s disappearance and the efforts to recapture him.
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Some were willing to dismiss that document in hopes that the truth would come out about a soldier who they now fear is being hailed as a hero, while the men who lost their lives looking for him are ignored.
5. Bergdahl Reportedly Split Camp with Just a Few Survival Items
Jibing with what was reported earlier on IJReview, Bergdahl seemingly planned leaving his platoon carefully:
According to first-hand accounts from soldiers in his platoon, Bergdahl, while on guard duty, shed his weapons and walked off the observation post with nothing more than a compass, a knife, water, a digital camera, and a diary.
6. Soldier Who Claims to Have Served with Bergdahl Says He Mailed His Valuables Back Mid-Tour
As reported by IJReview contributor Soopermexican, a soldier claims Bergdahl mailed back his valuables mid-tour:
As a soldier going by the moniker of @CodyFNFootball claims about Bergdahl:
“Why would someone pack all of there [sic] belongings and send them home in the middle of a 12 month deployment? Hmmmm.”
In addition, the soldier claims that Bergdahl bought an AK-47, a highly unusual choice for a U.S. soldier.
7. Six U.S. Soldiers Killed in Manhunt to Find the AWOL SoldierAs reported via Gateway Pundit:
PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl.
7. Bergdahl Reportedly Made Anti-American Statements
According to a Rolling Stone article written by the late writer Michael Hastings, Bergdahl complained about fellow soldiers and had anti-American things to say.
“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”
8. The Highly Unusual Behavior of Bowe BergdahlAlso corresponding with the story reported earlier here, Bergdahl dreamt about joing the French foreign legion, had an interest in fighting warloards in Darfur in Sudan, and also said he had desires to become a mercenary.
9. Father Praises Allah; Has Pro-Islamic Tweets on TimelineRegardless of what one thinks about Islam, it is quite a coincidence that Bowe’s father Robert Bergdahl’s Twitter account has pro-Islamic statements, along with tweets critical of Gitmo detainment.
At the press conference with President Obama announcing his son’s release, Robert Bergdahl said “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim” —which means “In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate.”
10. Robert Bergdahl Deletes Extremely Suspicious TweetAs reported by IJReview contributor Soopermexican earlier, this is what Robert Bergdahl by all appearances deleted from his timeline:
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/06/01/what-until-you-see-these-perplexing-tweets-from-released-pows-father/
I think we know what’s going on here on an instinctive level, if nothing else.
We should not be surprised, coming as it does from Obama. The whole thing smells.
Should newly freed Army SSgt Bowe Bergdahl, get ticker tape parade or just a ticket to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?
From Bergdahl as attribued by New York Post:
“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”
From Alan B. West:
However, there are questions that must be answered – like, why did the young Soldier walk off his Forward Operating Base (FOB) back in 2009? It’s not the modus operandi for Islamic terrorists to detain American troops when captured, as we reported previously. Our troops are brutally, ritually, and savagely murdered — to include American security contractors (remember the Fallujah bridge) — not held for five years.
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/06/amidst-celebrations-bergdahls-release-serious-questions/#P1UDQYf0EuTCVGzb.99
From Paul Mirengoff, Powerline:
An Obama administration official, asked about the circumstances of Bergdahl’s capture, came close to acknowledging that Bergdahl had deserted, saying “frankly, we don’t give a s-t why he left; he’s an American soldier, we want to bring him home.”
I admire the sentiment, and an assessment of the prisoner exchange should not depend on Bergdahl’s character. For the reasons I offered here, the deal would be a bad one even if Bergdahl had been a model soldier and an unwavering patriot.
Not to out done, Nice Deb has questions for the father:
When I saw Bowe Bergdahl’s father on the news yesterday – with his Talibanesque beard speaking Arabic (supposedly so he could better relate to his son’s captors) I thought, “okay…something is wrong with this picture.”
The good news of his son’s release was tempered by the fact that Obama released five Gitmo prisoners in exchange. Later in the day, when we found out who those prisoners were- five top Taliban commanders – some of whom had committed war crimes – all of whom were deemed to be a risk to Americans – the “good” news was tempered even further.
Then more and more information came out about Bowe – who had deserted his company in the middle of the night and walked straight into the arms of the Taliban, and the whole thing really began to stink.
Welcome back from Hell Bowe. Now meet your new jail cell.
Put an end to this tranny madness. In God’s infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, each of us was conceived as either a male or female. Now mere mortal humans are attempting err pretending to undo what can only be changed by God. Reference the buzz around one Laverne Cox , from Kevin D. Williamson, National Review:
Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman. Sex is a biological reality, and it is not subordinate to subjective impressions, no matter how intense those impressions are, how sincerely they are held, or how painful they make facing the biological facts of life. No hormone injection or surgical mutilation is sufficient to change that.
From a biologically confused, by Matt Wilstein, Mediate:
On that point, one could argue, Williamson is right. Cox is not a “woman” in the narrow, traditional sense that he is capable of comprehending. But nor is she a “man” in the way he insists on describing her throughout his intentionally offensive screed. Cox proudly identifies as transgender and has been instrumental in raising awareness about the issues that many transgender Americans face, like being denied healthcare and bullied or victimized in other violent ways.
Williamson points to the fact that Laverne Cox is a man. In response, Wilstien argues that Williamson should pander to Cox’s delusion that for some reason he thinks he is a female. I say, Cox was born a man, and will die a man, without or without an attached penis. If Cox took off his dress and used the men’s rooms to relieve himself, would Wilstien then argue that Cox treated as a man?
Humans can either live the life as the sex they were conceived, or as the trannies world, some pale imitation of the the other sex. The choice is yours.
As for any potential civil rights issue, if I decided that I thought I was black, would I then qualify for racial reparations. After all, race is only a social construct.
Charlize Theron just compared loss of her privacy to rape?
If Alan Webber were but a republican, this video would wall to wall on MSNBC, and Miss Chrissy Mathews would have melted down, video:
As Webber is not a republican, call it an Emily Latilla episode.
Snark of the Day from Jim Geraghty, National Review:
[Mrs. Clinton’s] assessment of the events in Benghazi that night was undoubtedly shaped by the PTSD she had from escaping snipers in Tuzla, Bosnia.
Geraghty references the Clintons propensity to lie whenever they find it convenient.
Snark of the Day by Kate, Small Dead Animals:
“We have been through a long season of war. And I managed to lose them all. I just want you to remember, in case you feel like blaming me, that it’s Bush’s fault.”
Anything you value, and want to keep, you must be prepared to defend.
Well, the Wikileaks folks have done the truth yet another favor. W was right, The Democrats as usual were dead wrong.
This is the group that’s been driving the GOP of late… picking the GOP last several presidential picks, working against the Tea Party, and so on.
Get the picture?
Well, the Wikileaks folks have done the truth yet another favor. W was right, The Democrats as usual were dead wrong.
Note to Lurch:
You telling Snowden to “man up” is like Chastity Bono telling him to “man up”… indeed, I suspect Bono has an edge over you in the manhood department.
Get the picture?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/29/kerry-tells-snowden-to-man-up-and-come-home/
