I hope they get to deduct the cost of those kneepads on their tax returns.
Posted on 06/04/2014 6:06:43 AM PDT by i88schwartz
NBC's Richard Engel says the Taliban is giving the media much more information about the Bergdahl swap than the U.S. government. Engel reports the U.S. government is updating journalists with written statements on the health of rescued POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
"The Taliban, however, have been very forthcoming with information," Engel said.
"We're kind of dependent on press releases and whatever the White House and others decide to give us," MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said. "This is tough to cover and to get the story."
"We've actually been getting more information today from the Taliban than we have from spokespersons here at the hospital in Landstuhl," Engel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Mika’s an idiot. The Margaret Dumont of MSNBC. Why doesn’t she try looking at foreign newspapers?
I hope they get to deduct the cost of those kneepads on their tax returns.
"There will be and have been circumstances when signing statements are necessary because of the president's view and the executive branch's view of the constitutional issues involved in a particular legislation..."
So now it's up to the discretion of the executive branch and Obama as to whether THEY decide whether something is constitutional or not? I'm not surprised by this in so much as I am surprised they actually admitted this to the press willingly.
But those London papers are in a different langauge!
So is the Taliban more transparent than the most transparent administration in history?
And none of them can read the Austrian-language papers!
Well, why not invite one of the taliban news ministers to the white house for press briefings? The m brotherhood is already there.
No surprise, except that NBC would admit it.
Thank you for admitting that you are a) not really a "journalist", and b) completely willing to swallow White Hut propaganda at all times, unless of course, there's a Republican president.
What a pitiful excuse for a reporter/human being.
Report: US Intel Officials Worry Bergdahl Became ‘Active Collaborator With the Enemy’
Guy Benson
TOWNHALL 6/3/2014
An astonishing scoop last night from Fox News’ James Rosen — whose access to sources has, ahem, attracted the Obama administration’s intense scrutiny in the not-so-distant past. Whoa:
A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban — has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of “a major classified file.” In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy. The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl...Sources told Fox News that many officials in the Executive Branch are “quite baffled” by the White House’s decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl’s father this past weekend, given the father’s history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes is also out with a searing piece in which soldiers from Bergdahl’s former platoon forcefully reject Susan Rice’s description of the former hostage as having served the US with “honor and distinction:”
“That’s not true,” says Specialist Cody Full, who served in the same platoon as Bergdahl, and whose tweets over the weekend as @CodyFNfootball offered an early firsthand account of Bergdahl’s departure. “He was not a hero. What he did was not honorable. He knowingly deserted and put thousands of people in danger because he did. We swore to an oath and we upheld ours. He did not.” “He walked off—and ‘walked off’ is a nice way to put it,” says Specialist Josh Cornelison, the medic in Bergdahl’s platoon. “He was accounted for late that afternoon. He very specifically planned to walk out in the middle of the night.” “He was a deserter,” says Specialist Full. “There’s no question in the minds of anyone in our platoon.”...One uncomfortable question that has vexed those involved in the Bergdahl case: Was Bergdahl merely a deserter or was he, possibly, a Taliban collaborator? ...Several military officials who spoke with THE WEEKLY STANDARD noted privately that Taliban attacks on U.S. forces in the Paktika province seemed to increase in frequency and effectiveness...[Some] wonder whether Bergdahl helped the Taliban, either willfully or under duress. In the hours after he disappeared, according to sources familiar with the intelligence, U.S. troops received an intelligence report that Bergdahl stopped in a local village and asked how to find the Taliban.
More evidence pointing to desertion continues to emerge, including this account from NBC News, which has been echoed elsewhere:
Report: US Intel Officials Worry Bergdahl Became ‘Active Collaborator With the Enemy’
Guy Benson
TOWNHALL 6/3/2014
An astonishing scoop last night from Fox News’ James Rosen — whose access to sources has, ahem, attracted the Obama administration’s intense scrutiny in the not-so-distant past. Whoa:
A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban — has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of “a major classified file.” In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy. The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl...Sources told Fox News that many officials in the Executive Branch are “quite baffled” by the White House’s decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl’s father this past weekend, given the father’s history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes is also out with a searing piece in which soldiers from Bergdahl’s former platoon forcefully reject Susan Rice’s description of the former hostage as having served the US with “honor and distinction:”
“That’s not true,” says Specialist Cody Full, who served in the same platoon as Bergdahl, and whose tweets over the weekend as @CodyFNfootball offered an early firsthand account of Bergdahl’s departure. “He was not a hero. What he did was not honorable. He knowingly deserted and put thousands of people in danger because he did. We swore to an oath and we upheld ours. He did not.” “He walked off—and ‘walked off’ is a nice way to put it,” says Specialist Josh Cornelison, the medic in Bergdahl’s platoon. “He was accounted for late that afternoon. He very specifically planned to walk out in the middle of the night.” “He was a deserter,” says Specialist Full. “There’s no question in the minds of anyone in our platoon.”...One uncomfortable question that has vexed those involved in the Bergdahl case: Was Bergdahl merely a deserter or was he, possibly, a Taliban collaborator? ...Several military officials who spoke with THE WEEKLY STANDARD noted privately that Taliban attacks on U.S. forces in the Paktika province seemed to increase in frequency and effectiveness...[Some] wonder whether Bergdahl helped the Taliban, either willfully or under duress. In the hours after he disappeared, according to sources familiar with the intelligence, U.S. troops received an intelligence report that Bergdahl stopped in a local village and asked how to find the Taliban.
More evidence pointing to desertion continues to emerge, including this account from NBC News, which has been echoed elsewhere:
That's because you're agitprop mouthpieces not real reporters.
Ever notice that from 2000-2008, every single cock-up in government, no matter what department, was reported in the media as the Bush Administration, the Bush Administration, the Bush Administration....? And now, since 2009, it's always the IRS, the State Department, the NSA, the VA, the "U.S. government." Never is the Obama Administration ever mentioned by name, unless it is in favorable light.
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