Bergdahl has not yet been asked why he left Afghan base: U.S. Army

Robert Spencer Jun 26, 2014 at 5:03pm Afghanistan 23 Comments

With all the allegations that he deserted and voluntarily sought out the Taliban, and the claims that he converted to Islam and was aiding in the Taliban’s jihad, this would seem to be an important question. But of course, Army officials don’t want to upset the poor lamb.

“Bergdahl has not yet been asked why he left Afghan base: U.S. Army,” Reuters, June 25, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has made no admission of wrongdoing since being released by the Taliban last month, officials said on Wednesday, adding that he has yet to be asked the tough question of why he left base before his 2009 capture.

http://goo.gl/Gzp5Iv 

TweetMe Please

The National Interest

http://libertyalliance.com/2014/06/national-interest/

If Obama interred Americans in the name of 'national security,' liberals would cheer

"How can liberals defend the swap of five terrorists for one American soldier?" asked Savage, noting:

It's crazy the way so many people are defending Obama's actions.

I would wager that if Obama passed an emergency order to round up 10,000 Americans who supposedly posed a threat to the civil order and put them in internment camps, the very people who call themselves liberal would support that.

Obama would lie and say he's just doing it for the sake of the country, and promise they'd be released as soon as they completed their "re-education."

I guarantee that many Americans would support him.

All the loud-mouth, phony civil libertarians wouldn't even oppose Obama's mass internment of Americans.

After all, one of Obama's mentors did that.

Remember, good old "Honest Abe" Lincoln arrested journalists who didn't report on the Civil War in the "right" way.

So don't kid yourself and say, "It can't happen here."

It has happened here, and it will happen again.

Visit the Michael Savage website here. 

Traitor being flown from Germany to US

Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who spent five years as a captive in Afghanistan before being traded for five high-profile Taliban leaders, is coming back to the United States sometime late tonight or early tomorrow morning, Fox News has learned.

Bergdahl, who has been undergoing unspecified treatment at a U.S. facility in Landstuhl, Germany, since he was turned over to the U.S. on May 31, will be flown to Brook Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio. It is not known how long he will remain there or if and when he will be questioned about the circumstances behind his apparently voluntary departure from an Army base in Afghanistan in 2009.

Word of his pending arrival came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel underwent tough questioning on Capital Hill from members of the House Armed Services Committee. Among other queries, lawmakers wanted to know why Bergdahl, whose Army peers have branded as a deserter whose capture put them in enhanced danger, was still in Germany.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/12/bergdahl-writings-reveal-frustration-mental-instability/

Image huffingtonpost.com

VA scandal: why criminal charges must be filed

Written by Allen West on June 10, 2014
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/06/va-scandal-criminal-charges-must-filed/#YqUPgRUk1bDpFxDG.99

Written by Allen West on June 10, 2014

Clearly the Obama administration wanted to use the Bergdahl release as a way of creating a positive diversion and getting the VA scandal behind them. As usual, they miscalculated, and depended on the liberal media for a bailout – however, that is failing as well. The rabbit hole gets deeper surrounding the Taliban release with Obama and his minions telling more lies to cover the initial lies.

But the VA scandal is also getting worse — a lot worse. Remember the president stated “IF these allegations are true?” Well Mr. President, they sure as heck are, so the ball is in your court. We definitively know veterans lost their lives in Arizona, and now there are reports that supervisors ordered reports to be manipulated. This is no longer an administrative inquiry, it is a criminal

Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/06/va-scandal-criminal-charges-must-filed/#YqUPgRUk1bDpFxDG.99

Disturbing Facts Revealed About Bowe Bergdahl’s Father

KRIS ZANE — JUNE 4, 2014

During the last days before Taliban “prisoner” Bowe Bergdahl was released—we now know he deserted his unit, renounced his American citizenship in a note, and actively sought out the Taliban—his father was very busy.

On May 28, 2014, Robert Bergdahl tweeted out the following:

“I am still working to free all Guantanamo Bay prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, amen!”

This tweet was actually tweeted to a Taliban spokesman!

A day later, he tweeted another Taliban Twitter account: “Democracy is a cult in the West” (and went on to defend sharia law.)

Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/shock-traitor-bergdahls-father-taliban-sympathizer/#D8DBkEbHpXURh4EZ.99

Image huffingtonpost.com

Michael Savage on Charles Krauthammer Siding with Obama

‘Just Admit It’: Administration privately concedes risk of Taliban swap, despite Kerry comments

Secretary of State John Kerry's dismissive "baloney" response to whether five Taliban members released from Guantanamo pose a risk to American troops is receiving pushback from, of all places, Obama administration officials. 

Despite Kerry brushing off such concerns in an interview on Sunday, Fox News is told that administration officials who briefed members of the House on Monday evening were not ready to rule out the possibility that the freed inmates could endanger Americans. 

ADVERTISEMENT

Several lawmakers said administration officials admitted Monday there could be some additional risk to Afghan civilians and Americans because the five hardened Taliban members have been freed, in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. 

http://goo.gl/K5wyrC

TweetMe Please

Judge ruled Taliban leader too dangerous to release

Obama went to court to keep one of the 'Taliban Five' freed in Bergdahl deal locked up at Guantanamo Bay – just three years ago!

By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR

PUBLISHED: 14:38 EST, 9 June 2014 | UPDATED: 15:53 EST, 9 June 2014

+5

The Obama administration released Khairulla Said Wali Khairkhwa and four other Taliban terror leaders to Qatari officials on May 31 in exchange for the safe return of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a man now accused of desertion

In 2011 a federal judge ruled that one of the five Taliban terror leaders traded by the White House for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl nine days ago was too dangerous to consider releasing, even if he had little chance of ever receiving a trial.

The same Obama administration that downplayed the likelihood Khairulla Said Wali Khairkhwa could return to the battlefield against the U.S. argued three years ago that he should be denied habeas corpus rights and kept locked away in an orange jumpsuit at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

The U.S. solicitor general's office, arguing on behalf of the president – the named defendant in a federal lawsuit – told the court that Khairkhwa was in the class of terrorists who were actively involved in the leadership of a group that killed Americans.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina wrote that '[t]he government contends that the petitioner, a former senior Taliban official, is lawfully detained because he was part of Taliban forces and purposefully and materially supported such forces in hostilities against the United States.'

He was also 'a member of the Taliban's highest governing body, the Supreme Shura,' the judge wrote, and 'was a close associate of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who appointed him Governor of the province of Herat in 1999.'

News of the apparent flip-flop in U.S. policy was

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2653191/Obama-administration-went-court-one-Taliban-Five-locked-Guantanamo-Bay-just-three-years-ago.html#ixzz34G4zKz3l
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Taliban using weapons supplied by Obama's State Dept.

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

June 8, 2014 | 3:55am

Modal Trigger

Taliban militia stand in the back of a pickup truck with heat-seeking Stinger missiles.Photo: Getty Images

In his new book, “Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Ben­ghazi” (Broadside Books), writer Kenneth R. Timmerman explains how the US government’s efforts to arm the Libyan rebels backfired, flooding weapons into Syria, and as he ­reveals here, Afghanistan:

The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons.

Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger missile.

http://goo.gl/yYY45N

TweetMe Please

OUTRAGE!! NY Times Smears Bowe Bergdahl’s Platoon Mates for His Desertion

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, June 9, 2014, 7:59 AM

Anything to help Obama and further their leftist cause…
The New York Times has now decided to smear Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon mates for his decision to desert them and join with the Taliban.
The gall of these people!

Bash the troops and praise a deserter!
That’s the left’s new game plan.

Bergdahl’s platoon mates were very vocal last week and in 100% agreement that Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter. The platoon mates said the Obama administration “spit in the face” of those brave soldiers who did serve their country with honor.

http://goo.gl/QSjBrC

TweetMe Please

Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo

By Alexander Bolton - 06/04/14 01:46 PM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Wednesday that Republican lawmakers would call for President Obama’s impeachment if he released more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without congressional approval.

Republicans worry Obama may try to shut down the prison camp unilaterally after congressional opposition has repeatedly stymied efforts to pass legislation to close it.

“It’s going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of Gitmo now without a huge backlash,” Graham said. “There will be people on our side calling for his impeachment if he did that.

http://goo.gl/MbKZ8i

TweetMe Please

Photo nbcnews.com

Bergdahl found by Special forces but wouldn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’

EXCLUSIVE:

The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operations commanders repeatedly shelved rescue missions because they didn’t want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a “deserter,” sources familiar with the mission plans said.

---

PHOTOS: Top 10 U.S. fighter jets

---

Commanders on the ground debated whether to pull the trigger on a rescue several times in recent years, according to one of the sources, a former high-level intelligence official in Afghanistan, who said the conclusion each time was that the prospect of losing highly trained troops was too high a price to pay for rescuing a soldier who walked away from his unit before being captured by the enemy.

Photo illustration with U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and a U.S. military sniper.

http://goo.gl/b0f6Qv

'Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down'

For five years, soldiers have been forced to stay silent about the disappearance and search for Bergdahl. Now we can talk about what really happened.

It was June 30, 2009, and I was in the city of Sharana, the capitol of Paktika province in Afghanistan. As I stepped out of a decrepit office building into a perfect sunny day, a member of my team started talking into his radio. “Say that again,” he said. “There’s an American soldier missing?”

There was. His name was Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, the only prisoner of war in the Afghan theater of operations.His release from Taliban custody on May 31 marks the end of a nearly five-year-old story for the soldiers of his unit, the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. I served in the same battalion in Afghanistan and participated in the attempts to retrieve him throughout the summer of 2009. After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team received an order that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to Bergdahl for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth.

http://goo.gl/1BFAHV

TWEETME PLEASE

Bowe Bergdahl story false? Soldier on Twitter claims that the Bergdahl's story is untrue; Fears Reprisal From Obama Administration

Early Saturday it was announced by the administration that the only American prisoner of war in Afghanistan was released in exchange for 5 Guantanamo Bay terrorists being set free to Qatar. [Explicit language below.]

The circumstances of the capture of Bowe Bergdahl had been in question long before his release – supposedly he had wandered off and captured by the Taliban.

But a soldier on Twitter is claiming that the official story is untrue, and has posted his version of the events that led to Bowe’s capture as I originally posted on my blog.

Towards the end of his story, he says he fears reprisal from the Obama administration, and asks for legal help. It must be noted also that he has a avatar that bears a picture of Bowe with the word “traitor” posted over it.

After stating that “F[***] what you I heard. I was there.,” here are the tweets telling his version of the story so far:

Read those Tweets Here:

http://goo.gl/6DctML

TweetMe Please