To refresh yourselves on the quixotic "rescue" of "Sergeant" Bergdahl from his Taliban "captors," go here, here, here, aaaaaaaand here. In a nutshell: The VA scandal was raging, Barack Obama needed a related PR distraction, the specter of freeing one of our own from enemy "captivity" would perfectly fit that "squirrel!" bill, and since he'd be significantly emptying Gitmo as "payment" and "Sergeant" Bergdahl was a fellow jihadi-symp, it would advance his ideological agenda and reward a loyal fellow-traveler at the same time for his "honorable and distinctive" treason to the country they both hate.
The one thing the Bergdahl caper lacked that is usually Obama's trademark (or so some believe) was incompetence. However perverse the motivations and reasons, the Bergdahl-Taliban (now ISIS) Dream Team "swap" was carried out swiftly and decisively. Or so it was thought.
As is another Obama trademark, months after the deal faded from the headlines, the other shoe has dropped:
The Obama administration made a ransom payment to an Afghan “con man” earlier this year in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, according to a Washington Times report. Best-selling author Brad Thor predicted there was likely money exchanged as part of the deal in a previous op-ed on TheBlaze.
Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA50) revealed the ransom payment in a November 5th letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The congressman noted that the DoD’s Joint Special Operations Command delivered the payment, but it was stolen by the “intermediary” who claimed to represent the hostage takers, the report adds.
“Given the significance of this matter, as well as the fact that Pentagon officials have denied that a payment was even considered — and you also said you were unaware of any such attempt — I ask you to immediately inquire with JSOC to determine the specific order of events,” Hunter stated....
The explosive report comes one day after White House press secretary Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama believes that it’s “not in the best interest of American citizens to pay ransoms to any organization, let alone a terrorist organization.”
"Explosive"? I'm hard-pressed to see how. If O was willing to give up the top five Taliban commanders for a lowly deserter, it's hardly shocking or implausible that he would have tried to buy off the Taliban to get Bergdahl back. That is tantamount to the U.S. funding a terrorist organization? The Obama Regime was arming the jihadists fighting the Assad government in Syria, including the Islamic State, through the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. If anything, the revelation that the White House tried to ransom the Left's idea of the "perfect soldier" can be spun to mitigate what they actually paid for him - "After the millions of dollars were stolen, we had no choice but to capitulate to the Taliban's demands to release their top five leaders, because "Sergeant" Bergdahl was about to die!"
That was a lie, of course. The "swap" itself was a traitorous outrage. Hiding the botched money transfer was the coverup. And the botched money transfer itself is the incompetence. So far from this story being "explosive," it merely checks off the final box in the Bowe Bergdahl affair long after the public has forgotten about it.
The only potential saving grace is that the Obarmy's investigation into/whitewash of the "Sergeant's" desertion and defection was extended back in August. But I wouldn't count on even that much justice being done, if I were y'all. Bowe Bergdahl's treachery being confirmed wouldn't be "explosive" either, but that could bring that headache back to the PR front-burner, and that'd be a distraction the Marxist-Alinskyist revolutionary in the White House doesn't need.
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