Was President Obama planning the Bergdahl ‘prisoner’ swap with the Taliban for years? It looks like the suspected deserter and those soldiers eventually sent in attempts to retrieve him were treated as disposable pawns in Obama’s long-term ploy to appease the Taliban and get back at Congress.
One of President Obama’s first acts after he took office was to order the shutdown of Gitmo, but he was thwarted in this effort by Congress. Now evidence indicates he passed up chances to rescue Bowe Bergdahl because he felt a Taliban prisoner swap would help to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
According to this report from The Daily Mail, the Bergdahl fiasco, including the deaths of soldiers sent to extract the deserter, were the result of Obama’s reaction to being blocked by Congress. If this is true, then the White House excuse that the President knowingly violated federal law by releasing prisoners without notifying Congress is pure fantasy. He has been planning the move for years in order to achieve his goal outside the law.
The Obama administration passed up multiple opportunities to rescue Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl because the president was dead-set on finding a reason to begin emptying Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a Pentagon official.
‘JSOC went to the White House with several specific rescue-op scenarios,’ the official with knowledge of interagency negotiations underway since at least November 2013 told MailOnline, referring to the Joint Special Operations Command. ‘But no one ever got traction.’
‘What we learned along the way was that the president wanted a diplomatic scenario that would establish a precedent for repatriating detainees from Gitmo,’ he said.
The official said a State Department liaison described the lay of the land to him in February, shortly after the Taliban sent the U.S. government a month-old video of Bergdahl in January, looking sickly and haggard, in an effort to create a sense of urgency about his health and effect a quick prisoner trade.
‘He basically told me that no matter what JSOC put on the table, it was never going to fly because the president isn’t going to leave office with Gitmo intact, and this was the best opportunity to see that through.’
Source: The Daily Mail
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, American Thinker
I think if this guy was to b a hero he shud have killed himself to save us in America that’s why he joined in the first place ??? Then he wud have deserved a Medal of Honor !!! Now because of this they are already plotting to hurt the US AGAIN!!! This kid messed up big time he deserves court Marshall and breck for life … Jus my opinion …
We should make the entire middle east a parking lot with the idiot right in the middle. Just Say’n
It is his way of saying , I can do whatever I want to, don’t need u or anybody else ,,I am the leader of this nation and I do what I want ,
obama is unapologetic for bringing someone’s son home? What about all of those brought home in body bags because of his actions? What about those that died in Benghazi? What about these parent’s sons? And what about all of those soldiers who will now die because they are now in Afghanistan, or being sent there (25 Reno Guard are being sent to day, supposedly the last) and al Qaeda feel they have the upper hand? How about all of those mother’s sons and daughters who have given the ultimate sacrifice defending what obama is so easily giving away? What about our citizens who live on our borders? What about those citizens who are defending our borders? What about those veterans that have died at the hands of the Veterans administration….what about……….
hang both traitors
I said right after I heard about this IT WAS A SET UP. IT WAS ALL PLANNED. WE HAVE A TERRORIST IN THE WHITEHOUSE AND NOBODY WILL IMPEACH HIM. WERE SCREWED….
yep, Guantanamo Bay will now be emptied; Obama trying to leave some sort of legacy before he leaves office; doesn’t care who is harmed by his actions
This traitorous president has now released five of the enemies most top level generals in exchange for a muslim sympathizer without the rest of the government being consulted and with no Congressional input !!!! Oliver North says, “Someone paid a ransom,’ maybe $5 or 6 million, to get Bergdahl freed. Did the government of the United States, either directly or indirectly, finance a terrorist organization?” Bergdahl’s father speaks their language, son deserts his unit. Obama embraces him, and terrorists are let go and , possibly, money was also paid to the Taliban! What is that but arranging for financial and strategic support of the enemy? How many more soldiers will be made hostage in hopes of a big American payoff? How long do you think it will be before there is a well planned and executed attack on Americans in the United States?? Where did you say they found Flight 370?? Obama is poisoning our standing with China. Didn’t this narcissist-in-chief campaign on closing Gitmo? Hasn’t he recently outed an Afghan CIA agent? Isn’t he pushing his carbon tax C**P! He’s doing all this to take the heat off from himself for allowing our veterans to be killed at the Veteran’s Hospitals through out this country! What must this man do to convince people HE IS NOT FOR AMERICA’S BEST INTERESTS!!!! The whitehouse is suggesting that Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers were psychopaths! The epitome of evil! Discrediting our loyal warriors who are over there fighting and RISKING THEIR VERY EXISTANCE for the directives of their leader! What kind of monster is he???? A psychopath is someone who has no regard for how his actions impact others…what better description can we have for the behavior of Obama?
WHY CAN’T COMETHING BE DONE WITH THIS PRESIDENT???
First they’re angry that soldiers died attempting a rescue, now they’re upset more attempts weren’t made, make up your mind.