Photo Credit: WND‘Obama and His Aides Have Lost Their Minds’
By Bob Unruh.
Former Republican Rep. Allen West two days ago called for President Obama’s impeachment over his decision to swap five known terror leaders for a soldier whose behavior is under investigation, arguing Obama apparently violated U.S. law forbidding material aid to terror groups.
Nevertheless, Obama defended his decision Thursday, saying he offered no apologies for releasing five Guantanamo detainees – who had been determined to be too dangerous to be freed – in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has been accused of desertion.
West, in a promotion for his political action committee, took aim at Obama’s unapologetic stance.
“Obama and his aides have lost their minds,” he said in an email for the Allen West Guardian Fund.
West’s outrage reverberated throughout his comments.
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Somewhere in Hell, Bin Laden is Smiling
By Patrick J. Buchanan.
Bowe Bergdahl was “an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield” who “served the United States with distinction and honor,” asserted Susan Rice, the president’s national security adviser…
But if a man jumps overboard, to desert, and half a dozen sailors perish in stormy seas trying to rescue him, the Navy does not welcome the AWOL seaman back aboard with bands playing, all hands on deck and the captain hosting a celebration.
The man is put in the brig to face charges on return to port.
That is the military ethos Gen. Dempsey rightly praises.
But if Barack Obama, Susan Rice and the White House thought that swapping five senior Taliban commanders for Bergdahl would be cheered, it only testifies to how far removed they are from the band-of-brothers culture of the American military.
Consider the damage this debacle has been done.
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Photo Credit: APObama makes ‘absolutely no apologies’ for Bergdahl terror trade and claims Taliban would have KILLED POW if he had told Congress
By David Martosko.
President Barack Obama doubled down Thursday on his handling of the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap, saying he makes ‘no apologies’ for releasing five Taliban terrorists in exchange for the safe return of an accused U.S. Army deserter.
‘I make absolutely no apologies for making sure we get back a young man to his parents,’ he said in Brussels during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, ‘and that the American people understand that this is somebody’s child and that we don’t condition whether or not we make the effort to try to get them back.’
‘We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about [him],’ Obama told reporters about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. ‘And we saw an opportunity and we seized it. And I make no apologies for that.’
Hours later the Associated Press published claims that the administration told U.S. senators that they were kept in the dark about the hostage swap because the Taliban threatened to kill Bergdahl if information about the negotiations was leaked.
Keeping the negotiations secret because of a death threat, however, may not hold water and is already being described among congressional aides as a flimsy excuse.
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Photo Credit: REUTERSMoves to clear Guantánamo gathering pace: Administration officials say more prisoners will be freed
By AFP.
Moves to free detainees from the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay are gathering pace as the administration works to close the notorious jail, a top US official has said.
“There are a significant number of transfers in the pipeline at various stages and I think you’re going to be seeing substantial progress this year,” the senior administration official said.
The official refused to be drawn on any specific figures amid a furore over the release of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a captured US soldier in Afghanistan.
Of the 149 prisoners still remaining in the jail in southern Cuba since the weekend releases, 78 have been approved to be freed without charge. The group, which includes 58 Yemenis and four Afghans, are awaiting transfer out of the jail.
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