Families Of Soldiers Who Died Seeking Bergdahl Demand Answers

by JASmius

Awww, isn't this sweet?:

The White House is apologizing to some members of Congress for not giving advance notice of the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Saturday — but at least one person not on that list is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. [emphasis added]

And that makes it all better.  That will protect American lives from the Five Horsemen of the Taliban Apocalypse.  That will check off the box.  That will solve the problem.  So accept it, "some" members of Congress, and go away, while False Messiah still allows it.

Well, bull[bleep]:

Senator Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, received a telephone call Tuesday afternoon from Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco apologizing for not giving a heads-up about the release of five senior Taliban militants from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a spokeswoman told Newsmax.

The committee's chairwoman, Senator Dianne Feinstein, told reporters that she received a call late Monday from Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken apologizing for what he called an "oversight" regarding the matter.

"I had a call from the White House last night, from Tony Blinken, apologizing for it," the California Democrat told reporters on Tuesday, the Hill reports. "He apologized and said it was an oversight.

"It’s very disappointing that there was not a level of trust sufficient to justify alerting us," she added, according to Politico. "The White House is pretty unilateral about what they want to do and when they want to do it. But I think the notification to us is important."...

"Oversight," my ass.  The White House knew the response it was going to get, that Congress wouldn't sign off on this caper, so they just flipped Capitol Hill the double-bird and did it anyway:

House Speaker John Boehner said that the White House kept the release from Congress because legislators would have opposed it based on the concerns raised when the administration last raised the issue in 2011.

"There was every expectation that the administration would re-engage with Congress, as it did before, and the only reason it did not is because the administration knew it faced serious and sober bipartisan concern and opposition," the Ohio Republican said in a statement.

"The administration has invited serious questions into how this exchange went down and the calculations the White House and relevant agencies made in moving forward without consulting Congress despite assurances it would re-engage with members on both sides of the aisle."

Red Barry wanted his little traitorous propaganda prop back, he wanted him now, because he wanted, needed, another end zone celebration, to make the public forget about VA-gate, the Obamaconomic depression, ObamaCare, and he didn't want to wait for 2016 to get the party started.  Bowe Bergdahl was also the downpayment on O's version of President Reagan's getting the American hostages in Iran freed.  It was going to solve all his problems, preserve a Democrat Senate, and restore a Democrat House.  It was perfection.

Except it wasn't.  Why?  Because, if you'll recall, President Reagan didn't ransom the 53 Americans held captive by the Iranian mullahgarchy - hell, even Jimmy Carter never sank that low - rather, the mullahs released them because they were evacuating their bowels at high velocity in high anxiety of what the Gipper might do to them if they didn't.

Oh, yes, and none of those 53 Americans defected to their jihadist captors.

There just happen to be some very interested and invested Americans who want to know a helluva lot more about that particular subject:

Private First Class Matthew Martinek died alongside [Lieutenant Darryn] Andrews when their vehicle was hit by a bomb and rocket-propelled grenade during their search. His family says they want answers as to why the mission to rescue him was ordered.

"This opens up the wounds again," Kenneth Luccioni, Martinek's stepfather, told Reuters. "There were a lot of people who risked their lives for this young man, and we want the truth."

Andrews' family had been told by the Army that he had died in an ambush during a mission to capture a top Taliban commander, the Daily Beast reported.

Both families said they heard by word of mouth from other soldiers months afterwards that their sons had died during the manhunt for Bergdahl.

The father of another soldier who died in the search for Bergdahl is outraged that they were sent on a mission to find him.

"It's just disgraceful that [President Barack] Obama would trade five high-level Taliban officers for this guy who basically defected," said Bob Curtiss, father of Sgt. Kurt Curtiss, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. 

"Leave him there," Curtiss said. "That was his choice, his decision."

You know what the official label is for this sort of comments?  "Swift-boating".

Oh, and "[bleep] you."

Now bow down and hail your conquering Taliban hero, people....



....because Bowe Bergdahl is probably going to replace Joe Biden as vice-dictator after 2016.