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By David Edwards
Sunday, June 8, 2014 12:22 EDT
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday asserted that the five Taliban members traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was being held prison of war, were hardcore military jihadists who are responsible for 9/11? and should have been detained indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay or some other U.S. prison.
First of all, I wouldnt release these men, McCain told CNN host Candy Crowley.
Ever? Crowley wondered.
Not these men, McCain insisted. They were judged time after time during their confinement in Guantanamo, they were evaluated and judged as too great a risk to release. That was the judgement made.
The Arizona Republican argued that Bergdahl knew when he joined the military that he was taking certain risks, and among those risks are wounding, death, imprisonment. Thats why we cherish and love all of those men and women who serve so much.
Crowley pointed out McCain had supported a prisoner exchange with the Taliban to save Bergdahl earlier this year.
McCain, however, insisted that the president had chosen the wrong prisoners, but refused to say exactly which detainees he would have selected.
First of all, were not sending everybody home, he chuckled. We are going to send them even if we close Guantanamo we are going to send them to facilities inside the United States of America, thats been the plan all along.
Second of all, I believe we should keep these people because they are hardcore jihadists who are responsible for 9/11, McCain continued. Of course, nobody wants to release people who are responsible for 9/11, and these people that are released that were Taliban governing worked hand-in-glove with al Qaeda.
Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who was the former top prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, told MSNBC on Saturday that the prisoners released in exchanged for Bergdahl were so inconsequential that he did not even know who they were.
My role as chief prosecutor was to review the information we had on the detainees to determine which ones we could potentially bring war crimes charges against, Davis recalled. When I saw the names of the five individuals, when they were reported last weekend, my first reaction was, Who are they?
I never saw the names before, which means there was not enough information to even make it on our list of potential prosecution, he explained. To trade five of them for a U.S. service member, in my estimation, and Im often critical of President [Barack] Obama, I think they struck a pretty good deal.
Watch the video below from CNNs State of the Union, broadcast June 8, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/08/john-mccain-obama-released-the-jihadists-responsible-for-911-to-get-sgt-bergdahl/
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savalez
(3,517 posts)sakabatou
(42,146 posts)safeinOhio
(32,670 posts)President Obama already got the guy responsible for 9/11.
can we PLEASE send him to the demented old media whore home now?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Unfortunately, McCain calls television studios, particularly CNN and Fox, "home."
hlthe2b
(102,222 posts)given his long history of documented lies?
madaboutharry
(40,205 posts)Every day he wakes up and has to face the fact that Barack Obama is the President of The United States of America, and he is not. It has caused him to go slowly insane.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)reporting on your insane rants as being serious?
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)of advertising the bitterness, stupidity, bigotry that guides current Republican party. Keep up the good work asshole.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,900 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)assertion? How can the media continue to lie like this to the American people? NSA spying does not do the damage to this nation that the GOP and their media co-harts do in a single interview. They are in control...it's just about hopeless.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Fuck this guy.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)he can keep his office in Washington. He will say anything to keep his job until the grim reaper comes callin.
struggle4progress
(118,274 posts)spanone
(135,816 posts)he sold his soul to the republican party.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt