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Military officials urged Obama not to trade Taliban ‘4-star generals,’ source says
FOX News ^ | June 6, 2014 | Jim Angle, James Rosen and Catherine Herridge

Posted on 06/06/2014 2:46:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Senior military officials had advised President Obama not to make the Taliban-for-Bergdahl trade, a senior Defense official told Fox News, likening it to "handing over five four-star generals of the Taliban."

The claim adds to the picture that is emerging about the tense internal debate over whether to proceed with freeing five hardened Taliban leaders from Guantanamo in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release.

Sources told Fox News earlier this week that the Obama administration largely bypassed the intelligence community to green-light the swap, after such an exchange was first floated several years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; brennan; brennanoath; gitmo; obamalawless; taliban; taliban5; traitor
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To: GOPJ
WHY was BO so desperate to get these lunatics out of gitmo? I wish everyone on the news would stop focusing on bergdahl and focus on WHY Hussein let them out. He claims that it is his responsibility to protect the “children” that are our soldiers. Please tell me how the release of those four prisoners helps protect all the “children” fighting over there or anywhere else. I think he was blackmailed, had to do come hell or high water. That's why he didn't tell congress cause his skinny a#$ was on the line with someone somewhere.
21 posted on 06/06/2014 4:04:00 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Taliban owns the White House!


22 posted on 06/06/2014 4:13:12 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: MHGinTN
11 Lest we forget, the current thug running the CIA is John Brennan, an Islam convert and eraser specialist.

I have heard this before, but I need confirmation before I can accept it.

Truth or Fiction: John Brenan A Muslim?

CIA Chief Nominee, John Brennan, is a Muslim Convert-Unproven!!

Summary of the eRumor:
This is a forwarded email that contains an article that alleges that the Presidential nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, is a convert to Islam.

The Truth:
We have not found any evidence that John Brennan is a Muslim.

The article is real and appeared on the World Net Daily website on February 10, 2013 It contained allegations by former FBI Islam expert John Guandolo, which said that John Brennan is a Muslim Convert.

The article said that during a radio interview Guandolo said, “Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia.”

If Brennan converted to Islam, nobody told the Muslims, according to a February 12, 2013 article in U.S. News & World Report citing the communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, who told the reporters "that he has no knowledge of Brennan converting to Islam."

I wouldn't trust Ibrahim Hooper as a witness to anything.

The article went on to call World Net Daily "a website that specializes in reporting on conspiracy theories." Hooper also said that "his group opposes Brennan's nomination, largely because of his role in operating the CIA drone program that targets terrorists but has also killed civilians."

Shortly after Brennan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath on March 8, 2013. Instead of placing his hand on a Bible, Brennan swore his oath on a draft of the U.S. Constitution that contained the handwriting of George Washington. This according to a March 13, 2013 article by Yahoo News that said that he requested a "document from the National Archives that would demonstrate the U.S. is a nation of laws." The article also said, that Brennan told President Obama "that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as director of the CIA.” This draft did not contain the Bill of Rights.

23 posted on 06/06/2014 4:15:09 PM PDT by MacNaughton (Marcus Tullius Cicero: "A nation ... cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: MacNaughton

Moose slime or not, him putting his hand on that Bible and lying through his grinning teeth should outrage even you.


24 posted on 06/06/2014 4:18:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: dandiegirl; TigersEye

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/penny-lane-gitmos-other-secret-cia-facility

That’s just what was allowed to be reported by the AP.


25 posted on 06/06/2014 4:23:15 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Leaning Right

Yep they shoulda resigned. Help speed the purge!


26 posted on 06/06/2014 4:44:58 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Aross

Thank you Aross. We’re all ears.


27 posted on 06/06/2014 4:53:14 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: PieterCasparzen

You’re not thinking that the Tollybon Five have been turned into double agents are you?


28 posted on 06/06/2014 4:56:15 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: dandiegirl
Please tell me how the release of those four prisoners helps protect all the “children” fighting over there or anywhere else. I think he was blackmailed, had to do come hell or high water. That's why he didn't tell congress cause his skinny a#$ was on the line with someone somewhere.

You're right that something doesn't add up... I suspect we'll find out soon enough...

29 posted on 06/06/2014 6:28:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.projectveritas.com/home/)
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To: MHGinTN
... eraser specialist

I have no clue - what's an eraser specialist...

30 posted on 06/06/2014 6:34:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.projectveritas.com/home/)
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To: GOPJ

The name Lt. Quarles should help ... passportgate, etc. Brennan is an evil, vile man, just what democrips love running the CIA.


31 posted on 06/06/2014 6:36:03 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... likening it to "handing over five four-star generals of the Taliban."

A poor argument to dumBO, who, thinks he is superior to any General.

32 posted on 06/06/2014 6:52:18 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: TigersEye

If everything we were told was real...

If you were in intel that would be your game plan.

But you’d need to be very convincing publicly that they were not. Otherwise, they’d never be accepted by the T-bongs.

In fact, if you were a T-bonger, you’d never trust them completely again; you’d probably want to wack them to be sure. All that work at Gitmo would gone with a few quick executions.

Of course, I’m in the camp that says the top of intel is fake, that those folks really work for globalists and they simply manage the CIA on behalf of their real employers. This, of course, would be the best tool in the globalists’ toolbox.

IMHO, top-level terrorism and crime (drugs, slavery, money laundering, etc.) have backchannel ties to globalists as well. Thus we see audaciously criminal, compartmentalized black projects with the ultimate cover - national security.

The Tallyban have been reported to be bigtime drug lords; the supposed “opposition to drugs” is used selectively as the PR for what is really farmer shakedowns, trying to tighten market supply, etc. A short while later, or just down the road, always turns out the Tolleybon are shipping product more than ever.

If you connect the dots, our elites are running it all: tallybon & AQ, us gov’t, western banking at the leadership level. Without terrorism, our enemies list is pretty much non-existent, which means a lot of globalist businesses are not needed.

The proof is in the utterly pathetic “poppy eradication” programs our military has run in Afghan, along with the similar stream of publicly-reported excuses. I’ve even received posts here on FR saying exactly the same excuses contained in the PR message: we’d be hurting the farming economy too much, more harm than good, they’re in mountainous places, the farmers would side with the tolleybon, etc.

In the article I recently posted on FR, of 209,000 acres, 7,000 were eradicated in a recent year. That’s 3%.

The shots are called from the top. We know how it goes.

The more I look the more it looks like a sick joke on the sheeple.

So my best guess would be that the TollyBong are just getting a job transfer from a training program back to fieldwork for the same employer.


33 posted on 06/06/2014 7:44:52 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Uh, yah.


34 posted on 06/06/2014 8:31:23 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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