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The Bergdahl hits just keep coming
Breitbart ^ | June 6, 2014 | John Hayward

Posted on 06/06/2014 8:34:55 AM PDT by don-o

Has there ever before been an Obama scandal that was still getting worse by the hour, days after the story broke? The new lie about the Taliban supposedly threatening Obama into violating U.S. law lasted, what, two hours tops before it fell apart?

Is there anything the White House has told us, from last weekend through yesterday, that actually held up? I'm having a hard time thinking of anything they said that turned out to be completely true. Bergdahl wasn't captured in battle, he didn't serve with distinction, he wasn't dying in captivity, Obama didn't have to break the law to complete the deal without notifying Congress, the military command and intelligence community didn't support the trade, the government of Qatar won't be "monitoring" the released Taliban commanders, either Harry Reid or Obama is lying about when Reid was brought into the loop...

And now we're getting word that members of Congress - not all of them Republicans - are furious that the Administration has been, shall we say, less than forthcoming to them in briefings. I suspect we'll be hearing more about that as endangered purple-state Democrats see their latest round of internal polling this weekend.

Meanwhile, every new development in the story - right up to the bombshell allegations that Bergdahl converted to Islam and was collaborating with the enemy, who provided him with firearms - has slammed into Obama like a right cross landing on a palooka with a glass jaw. Now, I'm not sure I buy this particular report, which reads as a bit sketchy and relies on too many third-hand sources for my taste, but the significant thing is that the Administration seems characteristically unprepared for it. It's something they should have known about and been ready to deal with,

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; bergdahlbriefing; bergsahlbriefing; briefing; obama; obamaisamuslim; obamaisatraitor; obamalies; talibaninwh
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To: don-o

Just like the Benghazi event, the biggest thing that comes to the forefront is the absolute cluelessness and incompetence of the Obama administration.

They STILL haven’t learned that information is global and they cannot tightly control it and shape it to their whims.

That alone shows how dangerously unmoored our country has been these last 5 years. We have no competent leadership.

And let’s not be completely partisan here. There are Republicans who, if they get their turn at the helm would be equally clueless about how open information is nowadays. There are just as many clueless dinosaurs in the Republican establishment.

The difference is that this administration was sold as young, hip, and aware of modern day realities of communication. It is all the more shocking how retrograde they really are concerning PR and information gathering. They seem to be lost in the 1950’s somewhere in their thinking about such matters.

Hey, Barack Obama, the 1950’s called and they want their PR tactics and foreign policy back!


21 posted on 06/06/2014 9:12:02 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: digger48
...they now claim he had tried to escape his captors and once spent 3 days in a trench he dug with his bare hands

Oh, great. I guess it's a good thing we had a guy like 0bama who could parachute in and fight off the ravening Taliban hordes with a pencil sharpener to effect this guy's escape.

There is a certain class of military stories that notoriously start out, "Now, this is no s***."

22 posted on 06/06/2014 9:14:36 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: maggief

11. Potentially in danger from guards disobeying orders.

They said that the White House had to make the exchange quickly because the Taliban is fractured and they could not be sure that everyone around Bergdahl with an AK-47 would go along with a leadership decision to release Bergdahl.


23 posted on 06/06/2014 9:15:56 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: don-o


24 posted on 06/06/2014 9:18:45 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
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To: maggief

I will BET that the Obama people put out a LIE that he converted and was able to carry an AR-15 just to SMEAR ALL of us as LIARS.


25 posted on 06/06/2014 9:21:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dead

Didn’t ANYONE freak out when the dad showed up looking that way???


26 posted on 06/06/2014 9:23:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

No evidence he converted to Islam? Then why did his father address him as such?


27 posted on 06/06/2014 9:23:38 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Ann Archy

Uh, that one came from an intel group (Eclipse) that was subcontracted by the Pentagon. While additional confirmation is needed, it has a degree of credibility.


28 posted on 06/06/2014 9:24:21 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Fitzy_888

This is why I feel the way I do about this. When she asked these men “Raise your hand if you think he deserted” and every one of them instantly raised their hand. Then she instructed “Raise your hand if you think he should be put on trial” and every hand instantly went up.

If I have to choose how to view this, I am going to view it through their eyes. They were there.


29 posted on 06/06/2014 9:24:42 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: don-o

We will be lucky to be alive in two years unless somebody gets a keeper for the idiot.


30 posted on 06/06/2014 9:26:16 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: morphing libertarian

“....when the Hero of Benghazi is impeached....”

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Will impeachment mean that he goes scott-free and there will be no inquiries into why he deceived the American people, repeatedly? There were four dead Americans in Benghazi and several dead Americans in the Bergdahl case.

So justice will NOT be served and crimes will never be divulged but buried for good?

And if it were ever determined that he was guilty of misdemeanors or worse, will his henchmen (sorry, his cabinet members) also be held responsible like they did in the Nuremberg trials with another “leader”?


31 posted on 06/06/2014 9:26:23 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: massgopguy; don-o

OMG!! if true, they will spin it that he HAD to convert or DIE. I’d rather die.


32 posted on 06/06/2014 9:26:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 353FMG

I’d settle for removal and a hut somewhere in Kenya

I waited this long for the Clinton’s to go to jail. Notice no investigation of the missing dept of state billions or their foundation, not to mention all the military stuff to china and the rest of the crap.

So let’s not get out hopes up.


33 posted on 06/06/2014 9:30:35 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: clintonh8r
Once the lie is launched by the regime, the party flaks just keep it in play because, you know, “well, I’m not lying. I’m just repeating what’s been reported.” And nobody ever challenges it.

That's what's so fun about this situation. The lies are coming so fast and are so weak and transparent, that inertia is keeping the last one still going when the next one emerges. Some people are even two lies behind when the memo catches up to them.

That just piles onto Obama's catastrophe.

-PJ

34 posted on 06/06/2014 9:33:17 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Ann Archy
Didn’t ANYONE freak out when the dad showed up looking that way???

In the current circle of off-camera people in and around the White House, his look wouldn't stand out as even remotely abnormal.

That's pretty much your standard coffee house academician turned political activist look and they're running the country these days.

35 posted on 06/06/2014 9:34:32 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: don-o

36 posted on 06/06/2014 9:39:30 AM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: maggief

I don’t see Obama getting out of this one...unless he throws someone under the bus. And that person will be Bergdahl. His next big lie will be “we got Bergdahl back to try him in front of a military tribunal.”

He gets aquitted. Obama’s home free. He gets convicted(unlikely), Obama’s good too.

Either way it really doesn’t matter. By that time Obama will be out of office.


37 posted on 06/06/2014 9:41:54 AM PDT by saleman
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To: Political Junkie Too

Thing is about all these lies... there are endless variations and possibilities, limited only by the imagination.

Compare to the truth. That would be boring, since there is only one.


38 posted on 06/06/2014 9:43:46 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: C210N
I'm waiting for the Swiftboating of Congress. They haven't gone there yet.

I'm waiting for Obama to say that he couldn't inform Congress because they couldn't be trusted to keep the secret because they disagreed with him and would leak it to undermine him -- because he's black or something.

-PJ

39 posted on 06/06/2014 9:49:06 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Fitzy_888
Normally the mainstream media would take glee in destroying these guys. The Obama Administration did their best to label them “Psychopaths”. Do they look like psychopaths?

Megyn Kelly: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon members speak out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHZ9xsgpQ3I


Here is a challenge to anyone willing to do a bit of research.

First watch the Megyn Kelley interview with Bergdahl’s platoon mates.

Then go watch all of the youtube videos of the MSNBC crowd, the White House spokesman, The President himself, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Susan Rice, Bergdahl's father and all the media Obama Admin propaganda operatives.

Then determine for yourself who is
a) sane
b) rational
c) objective
d) truthful
E) honorable
f) psychopathic
g) incompetent or lacking in leadership skills

I have done so, using the objective criteria set forth by the critics of these soldiers and all I can say is that their detractors have made a huge miscalculation here because those detractors seem to be irrational, of questionable sanity , agenda driven, dishonorable liars who are trying to spin this in their favor at any cost to cover for leaders in the White house who are incompetent and lack leadership skills and who are operating from very questionable motives

There seems to a lot of psychological projection going on with these detractors

Do the research, it's really stunning and more than a little disturbing

Youtube is your friend.

40 posted on 06/06/2014 9:52:00 AM PDT by rdcbn
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