Posted on 06/10/2014 10:22:39 AM PDT by maggief
How many excuses has the White House produced for not complying with the statutory requirement to notify and consult with Congress before releasing detainees from Gitmo? We’ve had enough to get to the point where they’re recycling the older ones. First we heard that there wasn’t enough time to notify Congress, followed by a claim that Bowe Bergdahl’s health was so bad he could have been dead within days. When that didn’t work, the White House then claimed that the Taliban threatened to kill Bergdahl if the deal leaked, which no one bought, and so we’re back to the we-had-no-time excuse. Take it away, Dick Durbin:
The Obama administration only finalized the exchange of the last remaining U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo a day before the June 1 swap, a top Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday. He said American officials didn’t learn the pickup location for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl until an hour ahead of time.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2-ranked Democrat, presented the timeline as an explanation for why President Barack Obama didn’t inform Congress 30 days before the deal. Republicans and some Democrats have sharply criticized the president for failing to notify them and claim he broke the law. Obama says he acted legally.
“They knew a day ahead of time the transfer was going to take place,” Durbin told reporters in the Capitol, where military officials briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee behind closed doors. “They knew an hour ahead of time where it was going to take place.”
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Wow. Good list. We get nothing but excuses and lies from progressives.
One, how fast your list is growing. And two, how outrageous the excuses are.
We should start a FR pool. Guess what number “climate change” will be on Maggie's list. Because sooner or later Obama will try to blame this fiasco on climate change. Bergdahl’s tent was too hot, or something like that.
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Wow. Just.....wow.
LOL!
The list is big!
I guess if the smear-masters can’t blame Bush or the weather (and there is no reasonable way they could blame Bush/weather), they’re lost.
No, I didn’t. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
Above the law at all times so what is anyone going to do about it.
NOTHING so suck it up.
BO
And it takes how long to e-mail or text message every congressman and senator?
Doesn’t matter...the law is the law.
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