Posted on 06/02/2014 7:48:57 PM PDT by Tzfat
America’s Last Prisoner of War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3162894/posts
Buried in this article from 2012:
[emphasis mine] “The Hill is giving State and the White House shit,” says one senior administration source. “The political consequences are being used as leverage in the policy debate.” According to White House sources, Marc Grossman, who replaced Richard Holbrooke as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, was given a direct warning by the president’s opponents in Congress about TRADING BOWE FOR FIVE TALIBAN PRISONERS during an election year. “They keep telling me it’s going to be Obama’s Willie Horton moment,” Grossman warned the White House. The threat was as ugly as it was clear: THE PRESIDENT’S POLITICAL ENEMIES WERE PREPARED TO USE THE RELEASE OF VIOLENT PRISONERS TO PAINT OBAMA AS A DUKAKIS-LIKE APPEASER, just as Republicans did to the former Massachusetts governor during the 1988 campaign. In response, a White House official advised Grossman that he should ignore the politics of the swap and concentrate solely on the policy.
“FRANKLY, WE DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHY HE LEFT,” SAYS ONE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL. “He’s an American soldier. We want to bring him home.” http://www.rollingstone.com/.../americas-last-prisoner-of.
Dude, that was like 12 months ago...
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