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(70,449 posts) Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:22 AM Jun 2014

Hagel Made Final Call on Bergdahl Swap, Congress Told

Source: ABC news

Hagel Made Final Call on Bergdahl Swap, Congress Told

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By ABC News
Jun 9, 2014 8:55pm

By John Parkinson and Jake Lefferman

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel – not President Obama – executed the administration’s final call to proceed with the prisoner exchange of five ranking Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, administration officials told Congress today in a classified briefing today.

“They indicated [it was] Secretary Hagel [who made the final call],” House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, R-California, told reporters following the briefing Monday evening. “It was the president of the United States that came out [in the Rose Garden] with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?”

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“I am so grateful to this administration for following through on what we all believed that we leave no soldier behind,” Schakowsky, D-Ill., said. “I am completely mystified and quite frankly disgusted that…there has been a demonization of the soldier. Every American deserves to be considered innocent until proven guilty.”

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“There’s a lot of problems with the administration’s story,” Bachmann said. “It keeps changing, and it doesn’t add up.”

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hagel-made-final-call-on-bergdahl-swap-congress-told/

So it wasn't that socialist, muslim, from Kenya but a republican, combat vet, who
is Sec. of Defense who made the call. No doubt Fox News will issue a correction.

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Hagel Made Final Call on Bergdahl Swap, Congress Told (Original Post) Botany Jun 2014 OP

considering the issues they claim are at stake Enrique Jun 2014 #1

Steve Stockman Suggests Obama Is A Secret Muslim And Terrorist Sympathizer Botany Jun 2014 #4

Enough All Ready markmyword Jun 2014 #7

The SecDef had to sign off on not just the Gitmo release but also TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #2

It doesn't "add up" for Mrs. Batshit. I doubt she can count without using fingers and toes. AAO Jun 2014 #3

Hagel testified ... GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #5

Who's going to put Chuck Hegal under the bus? The White House or Congress? Issa'll have .... marble falls Jun 2014 #6

Obama had nothing to do with this mwrguy Jun 2014 #8

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

1. considering the issues they claim are at stake

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:31 AM

Jun 2014

whether Hagel or Obama made the decision would be irrelevant.

Of course, if by any chance the GOP is playing politics (God forbid!) then it makes all the difference.

Botany

(70,449 posts)

4. Steve Stockman Suggests Obama Is A Secret Muslim And Terrorist Sympathizer

Reply to Enrique (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:42 AM

Jun 2014

I guess it really doesn't matter "they" are all bat shit crazy because Obama
is black and still President. No wonder the administration did not clue "them"
in on the final plans for the Bergdahl swap ..... no doubt "they" would have
tried to screw the deal. A long time ago in a very middle class neighborhood
our next door neighbor's brother was Governor of PA, Ray Shafer, and he was
a really good guy and a Republican too but today they all seem to be batshit
crazy to some extent.

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Speaking with NewsMax’s Steve Malzberg last week, Rep. Steve Stockman insisted that President Obama “has a grudge against the military and the American people” and a “propensity to fall again and again on the side of terrorists” in countries like Egypt, Syria and Libya.

“A lot of people say he’s not something, we can’t say it on the radio, but if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, I think it might be a duck,” he said, suggesting that Obama is a secret Muslim.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/steve-stockman-suggests-obama-secret-muslim-and-terrorist-sympathizer#sthash.vjmQn5py.dpuf

markmyword

(180 posts)

7. Enough All Ready

Reply to Enrique (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:22 PM

Jun 2014

Let's stop talking about this and so many other Republican talking points.
We waste so much energy on what the Republicans want to do, which is DISTRACTING us from what we need to do.

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PROSECUTING WALL STREET
Job TRAINING

Democrats need to lead the way and quit REACTING to the Republicans!

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

2. The SecDef had to sign off on not just the Gitmo release but also

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:40 AM

Jun 2014

the mission--the Special Forces deployments and assets moved to the transfer site. So, yeah, it had to be Hagel to give the final go. Panetta backed off in 2012, wouldn't do it. That said, I don't think there was any way Hagel, because of his own background, was going to leave that young man to die in captivity if he could help it.