DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

WHAT DOES BOWE KNOW?

 

First let me start off by saying congratulations to the family of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the occasion of his release from the Taliban.  If it had been my son, I would have gone to nearly any extreme to secure his release from captivity and generally this would be about the second happiest day of my life.

 

This morning, I watched the news on ABC, please note that this was not FOX News but rather ABC and then the interview of National Security Advisor Susan Rice on the George Stephanopoulos Program,   The following is a direct quote from the dialog that ensued as taken from the above transcript published by ABC.

 

STEPHANOPOULOS:

 

Let's bring those questions to the president's national security adviser Susan Rice. Thank you for joining us this morning.

 

Let's begin with how Bowe Bergdahl is doing right now. We know he's landed in Germany. What more can you tell us about how he's doing, his health?

 

SUSAN RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Well, George, first of all, this is a joyous day. The fact that he is now safely in American hands and will be reunited with his family and his community is incredible.

 

He's now in Landstuhl hospital in Germany. He's going through all of the requisite evaluations and care. And he is said to be walking and in good physical condition. And we look forward to the days to come in which we'll have an even better sense of how he's doing and we look forward to when he can return to the United States, continue his rehabilitation and be reunited with his family.

 

Wait!  Stop the Presses!!! Lets exam this statement with what she says next about why The President did not inform Congress of this deal as required by law:

 

 

STEPHANOPOULOS: Also questions about whether the president violated the law, that charge has come from congress as well, that he was supposed to notify members of congress before the transfer of any GITMO detainees.

 

RICE: Well, George, in fact what we had to do and what did do, consistent with the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief, is prioritize the health of Sergeant Bergdahl. We had reason to be concerned that this was an urgent and an acute situation, that his life could have been at risk. We did not have 30 days to wait. And had we waited and lost him, I don't think anybody would have forgiven the United States government.

 

I am a chess player and retired from the United States Army. I fully understand making trades of a strategic nature to win the war.  What The President did in this instance was to trade five Taliban Detainees four of which were extremely high ranking and had previously been tagged as "High Risk" for one Private First Class who by nature of his continued time in service on the rolls of the Department of Defense was promoted two pay grades while being held captive. 

 

So I am forced to ask myself, "What did Bowe know?"  What information did now Sergeant Bergdahl possess that caused The President of The United States to circumvent the Law of the Land and make a Deal With The Devil without the required notice to Congress?

 

RICE:  "We did not have 30 days to wait. And had we waited and lost him, I don't think anybody would have forgiven the United States government."

 

As a young man growing up in the Mid-West, I watched Smokey and The Bandit.  There is an appropriate line in the move where Burt Reynolds says words to the effect of:  "I have an excellent Bull Shit Detector.  I can tell when someone is pissing on my boots and telling me it's raining."

 

Folks this is not rain!!!!

 

We have a young man who may have deserted his post in time of war and either voluntarily broken his "TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGENCE" to the United States by surrendering OR may have left his post by being Derelict In The Performance of His Duties and allowed himself to be captured and now, we have a President who simply feels himself ABOVE THE LAW making a deal that may potentially costs thousands of American lives by releasing five high ranking terrorists back onto the field of battle to plot, plan and execute whatever heinous acts they have been dreaming of as revenge during their detention.

 

We all witnessed the complete embarrassment of Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney as he fumbled to defend the last round of pointed questions put to him by the White House Press Pool.  Since Rice says that the President spoke with the Leader of QATAR on Tuesday, it seems obviously clear why CARNEY chose to resign so suddenly.  THIS IS NOT RAIN and he knows there is no way this is going to bode well.

 

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