Posted on 06/03/2014 10:13:55 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid received a heads-up on the deal to transfer Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the five Taliban officials detained in Guantanamo Bay — but it’s not clear who else did.
In a brief interview, Reid said the White House contacted him ahead of the swap — but not by much.
“It must have been either the day before or the day of. I don’t remember for sure,” Reid said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declined to comment when asked about White House outreach with regards to Bergdahl.
Reid’s remarks underscore a growing divide on Capitol Hill over how the White House handled the situation, which will begin to be hashed out by the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors on Tuesday. A classified briefing on Bergdahl has been arranged for senators on Tuesday afternoon to pepper top administration intelligence officials about how the swap went down — and why Congress was left largely in the dark.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a similar briefing June 10 — though Republicans are pushing for an open hearing as well. House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has vowed to hold hearings on the Bergdahl exchange.
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According to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163092/posts
McCain knew about it and was dead set against it.
And Cockroach Harry Reid, with a foul smelling stain on his nose, covers Obama’s arse as expected.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid received a heads-up on the deal to transfer Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the five Taliban officials detained in Guantanamo Bay — but it’s not clear who else did....”
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Dollars to donuts that Hillary Clinton knew. In fact, this exchange may have been one of the main things on the agenda when she went to the White House last week.
Way to lead, Mitch!
-PJ
Reporting on this is insane. Probably best to wait a week to see what the real story is.
It could turn out that Mitch was “briefed” and never told his caucus.
Now that isn’t a “notification of congress 30 days in advance” but if he was not told he could have answered without declining.
-PJ
bttt
In a brief interview, Reid said the White House contacted him ahead of the swap — but not by much.
“It must have been either the day before or the day of. I don’t remember for sure,” Reid said.
Harry probably demanded a cut of the ransom money Obama paid.
Reid (D-Nev.) declined to discuss how much the Obama administration had kept him in the loop.
“Oh, I’m not going to talk about that,” Reid said.
Getting pretty senile Harry when you can't remember something 3 days earlier.
Did Kerry know?
This sort of thing would probably involve the State Dept.
But then again, it’s Kerry.
That was years ago, and was only hypothetical.
For the Intelligence Committees, they're called "Select" because they are set up as fully bipartisan -- two co-chairs instead of chairman and a ranking member.
-PJ
McConnell and Cornyn were notified.
Dude, it was, like, 3 days ago.
“Hmmm... Wonder how long it will be before OBAMA says he didn’t know about it until he heard it on the news?”
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I wonder how long it will be before Obama says he’s “mad as hell” about it?
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