I share the sentiment. Would be a big improvement at this point. What could be worse?
Posted on 06/08/2014 6:27:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A senior intelligence official with intimate knowledge of the years-long effort to locate and rescue Bergdahl told the Washington Free Beacon that the details of that exchange do not add up.
The official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, speculated that a cash ransom was paid to the Haqqani Network to get the group to free the prisoner.
The Obama administration reportedly considered offering cash for his release as late as December 2013. The State Department has repeatedly refused to say whether the deal that released Bergdahl involved any cash payment.
The ransom plan was reportedly abandoned, but the intelligence official insisted that there is reason to believe that cash changed hands as part of the deal.
“The Haqqanis could give a rat’s ass about prisoners,” the official said, referring to the Haqqani Network, a designated terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were freed in exchange for Bergdahl’s release.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
it seems Bergdahl’s captors were seeking something other than the Taliban prisoners, got paid off, and Obama simply used the trade as an excuse to release master terrorists from Gitmo,” Rubin said.”
what a surprise THIS IS!!!
“I Stand with the Taliban”...Barack Obama 2009
That means yes.
I keep hearing that the Haqqanis are all about cash and extortion and unlikely to be too concerned about anyone at Guantanamo.
It seems the release of the Five Talliwackers and Bergdahl are not actually linked.
They actually would not want the detainees to come home and take over the positions of power.
Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking.
Its like the mob wanting FBI agents released.
In bureaucrat-speak, that’s exactly what it means.
I wonder how many airline tickets $50 million would buy ?
I share the sentiment. Would be a big improvement at this point. What could be worse?
Meanwhile, the State Dept is apparently missing $5 million from when Hillary ran the dept.
just a coincidence. Or Bush stole it.
As bad as paying off the Taliban is, I am MORE CONCERNED about the covert payments Qatar is making to OBAMA, to grease this deal. Qatar is the financial center of Jihad.
He did say this in his book which is just as bad and a nightmare coming true for all of us:
Try $6 Billion.
Has anyone asked the Spokeskid that question?
Who killed Michael Hastings
watch this Lou Dobbs report regarding reporter Michael Hastings who did a story in 2012. What happened to Hastings in 2013. Watch this report
http://youtu.be/uRetpla_hIc
That’s not what he said in the book.
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