The Government Accountability Office reported today that Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he exchanged five Guantanamo Bay detainees for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl earlier this year.
“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report reads. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”
Of course, don’t expect Obama to stop playing golf and run to address this crime – just add this to the list of 76 crimes Senator Ted Cruz published earlier this year.
Obama knows that this government is completely locked down with communists, Muslim Brotherhood members and complicit criminals. No, Obama isn’t about to break a sweat, unless it’s on the 18th hole.
The report comes several months after the Obama administration released five senior Taliban members from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl, who had disappeared in 2009. Under the exchange terms, the five Taliban are to remain in Qatar for a year.
Lawmakers at the time complained about the security implications of releasing Taliban leaders from Guantanamo, but also about the late notification by the Pentagon that they were going forward with the swap.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, among the lawmakers who requested the report, said Thursday that the president “clearly defied” the law.
“We have all seen the President decide to override the concept of checks and balances in many questionable executive actions, but the GAO opinion confirms that by doing so in connection with the release of Bowe Bergdahl, he engaged in a clear violation of the law,” she said in a statement. “I hope this opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office sends a clear signal to the President that his recent shift towards unilateral action is not consistent with this nation’s principles and our carefully designed separation of powers.”
Whether the finding will result in any formal legal complaint remains to be seen. The House Armed Services Committee has prepared a “resolution of disapproval” potentially to be considered later this year about the swap, but such a measure is nonbinding.
At issue were recent laws passed by Congress. The latest Defense spending bill states that no money can be used to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to another country “except in accordance” with a separate, related Defense law. That law requires the secretary of Defense to notify key congressional committees at least 30 days before such a transfer.
The swap occurred May 31 of this year. However, the GAO report said those committees were only notified between May 31 and June 2.
nobody has the BALLS to do a dam thing to him
Nothing will be done…
Yes Robin- ISIS are already here. They took pictures of the WH. They are sweeping and recruiting in Europe. Nothing is being done. We are being warned by people who care. The American people need to do something before we have beheading in our back yards .
So WHY is he not in jail its time to hang all of the Traitors in office for TREASON
So what. The spineless RINOS won’t do anything.
$#%&!@* this nobody want to do nothing Couse there scared of the racial charges he would put on them and on the other hand to many Damn $#%&!@*s to try anything one man dies everyone backs off so stop posting that Damn $#%&!@* tarred niggas dumb $#%&!@* until everyone gets the balls to get up and do it $#%&!@* Obama
time for the military to do its job and protect we the people from this domestic threat,since congress wont.
If he broke the law why isn’t he paying for it. Oh, I forgot, he thinks he is above the law. Kinda looks like he is or the people in charge are afraid of him.
That’s not news – We’ve known that all along
So do something about it then. To damn dumb dimorats won’t do a thing. They will protect his lying, cheating, criminal to the end. Dimorats are YELLOW COWARDS.