Posted on 06/04/2014 5:10:01 AM PDT by CodeJockey
The Taliban released a video Wednesday purporting to show the moment former prisoner Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to American custody.
The 17-minute video, sent to NBC News by a known Taliban spokesman, shows both sides quickly shaking hands before a clean-shaven Bergdahl is handed over.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
The reason our side didn't want Bergdahl to have a carry-on is because THERE WOULD BE EVIDENCE IN THAT BAG THAT PROVES HE WAS A DEFECTOR NOT A MAN WHO "SERVED WITH HONOR AND DISTRINCTION".
Yeah, we need more hearings because they are so productive.
Just impeach the traitor now and be done with it!
He looked a dang sight better than McCain when he came home. There’s nothing wrong with that guy worse than any other person who has been in captivity. If he even was.
My thoughts exactly. Although minus our U.S. soldier.
Report: US Intel Officials Worry Bergdahl Became ‘Active Collaborator With the Enemy’
Guy Benson
TOWNHALL 6/3/2014
An astonishing scoop last night from Fox News’ James Rosen — whose access to sources has, ahem, attracted the Obama administration’s intense scrutiny in the not-so-distant past. Whoa:
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. The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl...Sources told Fox News that many officials in the Executive Branch are “quite baffled” by the White House’s decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl’s father this past weekend, given the father’s history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes is also out with a searing piece in which soldiers from Bergdahl’s former platoon forcefully reject Susan Rice’s description of the former hostage as having served the US with “honor and distinction:”
“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.” “He walked off—and ‘walked off’ is a nice way to put it,” says Specialist Josh Cornelison, the medic in Bergdahl’s platoon. “He was accounted for late that afternoon. He very specifically planned to walk out in the middle of the night.” “He was a deserter,” says Specialist Full. “There’s no question in the minds of anyone in our platoon.”...One uncomfortable question that has vexed those involved in the Bergdahl case: Was Bergdahl merely a deserter or was he, possibly, a Taliban collaborator? ...Several military officials who spoke with THE WEEKLY STANDARD noted privately that Taliban attacks on U.S. forces in the Paktika province seemed to increase in frequency and effectiveness...[Some] wonder whether Bergdahl helped the Taliban, either willfully or under duress. In the hours after he disappeared, according to sources familiar with the intelligence, U.S. troops received an intelligence report that Bergdahl stopped in a local village and asked how to find the Taliban.
More evidence pointing to desertion continues to emerge, including this account from NBC News, which has been echoed elsewhere:
Sure, and it’s all a Vast Right-Wing conspiracy organized by republicans with Faux News.
Also we shouldn’t forget that Bergdahl was a covert agent for our side trying to infiltrate the Taliban to gain information.
We need to trust Obama’s people! They’re doing the right thing!
/BS
I see. thanks
yes that is why i did.
Thanks for the youtube link!
I think the rush was the VA story. They didn’t expect the backlash from this having no clue what it REALLY means to serve your country. They timed it also as prezObama5 going out of country for a while too.
Big win for the Manchurian president: Five Tallies get to make war against us again; a home-grown terrorist will soon be among us again. Allah must be pleased with his disciple Mullah Baraq.....
Anytime a WH or DOS spokesman starts off with a reply to a question “Let me be clear...” whatever follows will be scented with fecal ecoli.
When the Rapture occurs, Obama will have Susan Rice state that Satan has served this world with Honor and Distinction.
As I stated on another post, do not be surprised if they say Bergdahl was under orders to infiltrate the Taliban.
Hagel said today he doesn’t know the specifics. This is a set up so he can say “We had to wait until he was safely home before we could tell the whole story.”
We’re on the same page.
He was of a mind to walk off before that.
Viewing his dad, he may have been radicalized before he enlisted.
He had ‘gone native’ before he voluntarily ‘turned’.
“that’s fine” means:
We will vaporize everything within 5 miles of the helicopter if you so much as spit in its direction.
They flew a white flag for the handoff. We don’t shoot white flags. But there was indeed some backup air that would have been gawdawfull if the flag had proven false.
The tallibunnies didn’t just shave his face and noggin. They also shaved his eyebrows. And I expect he had a bag over his head until the pickup door opened. That all explains some of his tearing and blinking. He’s lucky they didn’t cut his eyelids as happened to some of our guys in Veetnam.. But the eyebrows are enough to make him a marked mouse. And they told him they would kill him if he ever showed up back in Gannyland.
I’d discount the wife part since he didn’t have any goats to trade. But it’s not beyond the pale that he might have had a boyfriend?
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