Sand-Kicker in Chief
A retired Army lieutenant colonel, Anthony Shaffer, whom FOX News uses frequently to determine goings-on in the Pentagon, revealed last night that the Army is not the culprit in the cover-up of the Bowe Bergdahl investigation. According to the colonel’s internal Pentagon sources, the Army has already charged Bergdahl with desertion but has been stymied in pursuing the normal court-martial processes due to oppressive command influence from the White House. According to Shaffer’s sources, the immediate culprit is Ben Rhodes, current deputy national security adviser for strategic communication for Barack Obama.
White House fear is totally understandable. If you had traded five key terrorist leaders for one American G.I. and your hero turned out to be a deserter who willingly left his post and his unit and went over to the enemy in time of war, wouldn’t you be embarrassed? Worse, had you quite publicly invited said deserter’s parents to stroll congenially and intimately through the White House Rose Garden with you, and then had that event broadcast ’round the world, wouldn’t you be embarrassed?
However, their fear is in no way defensible. If the president is embarrassed by his reckless diplomacy and his foolishness in courting the family of a possible traitor, so be it. Were I the president, heads would be rolling for allowing such a public relations disaster to occur and for making me look like such a naïve fool. Of course, the possibility exists that the president was fully aware of a completed Army investigation that had concluded that Bergdahl was a deserter and that this was merely another one of Obama’s long-middle-finger gestures to the nation he purportedly leads.
But in no way does the extant situation justify a national cover-up of the truth surrounding this soldier’s treachery. The Army has determined that sufficient evidence exists to court-martial PFC Bergdahl (a PFC when he deserted but promoted in absentia to SGT) for desertion in the face of the enemy. Also, he most probably bears some legal culpability for the several deaths of those soldiers who went searching for him in the belief he might have been kidnapped by the enemy. Most importantly, the military and veterans’ communities are entitled to a legal resolution of this situation, as it bears directly on the preservation of military rules of duty, honor, and country.
This situation stinks worse than my cat’s litter box, and it is unseemly for our commander-in-chief to be in this particular cat box doing his very best to cover up the political pile of poop that Bowe Bergdahl has become. Obama can delegate Ben Rhodes to kick all the presidential sand he wants, but no amount of White House effort is ever going to cover the huge political stink that the Bowe Bergdahl affair is about to become.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
Coverup? What freakin’ coverup? The file on this must be 12 inches thick! The investigating officer (IO) had to interview hundreds of witness that are now geographically separated from hell to breakfast. This is a procedural nightmare. The idea that this report was being held “until after the election” and then “To be released over the holidays” and now “because of White House interference” is horsesh**. It’s stuck in Army legal and procedural hell and will come out in due time. And oh by the way, in case you’re wondering, I’m glad we got the little jerk back no matter what it cost us. Because “Never leave a man behind, even if he is a dick”.
http://www.businessinsider.com/never-leave-behind-bowe-bergdahl-2014-6
The investigation was reportedly concluded when? Yesterday? Last week? Two or three weeks ago? Last month? Two months ago? All wrong. It was completed three + months ago. Then came the legal review and discussion. That was followed by a great many fingers tapping tables, wondering what the delay was about. Speculation was that the Golfer in Mom Jeans wanted to play squishy-squash with the likely conclusion drawn by the reviewers. It’s not only a plausible explanation for the delay but a likely one, given the currents regime’s history and the fact that The Emperor tried the PR gambit (which went kablooie!) when the SECRET terrorist trade was announced and Bergdahl senior did his thing at the WH. As for whether it was worth trying to get him back, given what was reported by members of his unit, I will defer to those who were wounded trying and the loved ones of those who were killed in that effort.
I’m saying it takes MONTHS for legal review. Especially for something as complex and heavily scrutinized as this. I know the investigation was completed late last summer but people said it was being held by the administration for political purposes. I call BS.
Sure it took time for the legal review and, yes, perhaps people were jumping the gun, but it’s quite likely that you and the other camp are both right, to an extent. That is, the process was meticulous and lengthy but the political pressure from the WH also contributed to delaying the decision.
Totally possible, maybe even plausible. I just hate the rush to conclude it MUST be politically driven. It’s disgusting and offensive. The shifting story lines used to just justify why the report hadn’t come out from people that are using it’s non-release as political ammunition fails to stand up to scrutiny. The blog comments last night were even talking about Presidential Pardons. Jeez!
Frosty, since my war was Vietnam I’m betting I’ve been around a bit longer than you and have learned that when an administration has been caught lying and covering up for political and personal reasons on multiple occasions it is wise to expect that they will repeat such behavior. And that suspicion is heightened when the latest cover-up they are being accused of could be extremely politically embarrassing to the administration and personally embarrassing to that narcissist who occupies the Oval Office. If Bergdahl goes to trial and is convicted, Obama becomes the biggest chump in the history of the American presidency. As for judicial review, the original investigation was completed years ago, when Bergdahl’s unit was still intact and the witnesses readily accessible to investigators. So the investigation was completed long before last summer, as you contend,and the conclusions of that original investigation were that Bergdahl was in fact a deserter. That the Obama administration had to know that and yet still tried to so publicly whitewash his actions lends further weight to the belief that something has been skewed about this prisoner exchange and its justification from the very start. This latest investigation was supposed to be merely a review of the original to confirm if the initial conclusions were correct, as well as to give Bergdahl an opportunity to defend his behavior before being charged. As for that lame-ass article you linked to, what the hell are you trying to say? That this “jerk” as you refer to him, bears no responsibility for those troopers’ deaths if he did, in fact, desert? Too many good soldiers lost their lives looking for this turd even though the boots on the ground knew he was a sorry-ass deserter. Did you not listen to any of the testimony by his platoon members when they were being interviewed after his release? No, you link to an article which attempts to excuse the poor special little flower’s culpability in their deaths. I find that article contemptible and question your judgment in using it to support your argument. Lastly, if you want to… Read more »
I agree. Never leave a man behind because that deprives you of putting his sorry ass in front of a proper firing squad.
Hey guys, I only just learned this through the press reports. Only then was I able to start making a decision! Undue Command Influence….period!
Is this bunch capable of being embarrassed by anything? Haven’t seen any evidence of it. They usually respond to things that don’t go in their favor with denial, pitching hissy fits, lying, and otherwise manipulating things to appear favorable to them. In other words, acting like toddlers.
What we can anticipate from them is anger that we would expect honorable behavior from them, another thing it seems they are incapable of providing.
Good, post. Thanks!
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OWB, what else do you expect from spoiled brats with no sense of decency and no conscience of any kind?
No surprise here.
You forgot. It was George Bush’s fault.
Something, something…transparency in government…mumble, mumble…let me be clear…mutter, mutter…
What (the f*ck) ever.
To be embarrassed would mean one would have to be capable of feeling shame. This Sociopath-In-Chief is unburdened by such silly emotional balance.
I’m just waiting for the pResident to exert command influence over this whole thing to crush it before it gets big. He held the traitor up as a hero while pissing on honorably serving vets, what are you surprised about?
We negotiated with terrorists to get back a deserter and herald him as a hero? What happened to the policy of not negotiating with terrorists? I guess that went out the window when Iran took the hostages in ’79.
We didn’t trade five for one, we really traded six for none.
First, we’ve done prisoner exchanges since the dawn of the republic during times of war. Second, if it makes you feel uncomfortable calling this a prisoner exchange, we can call it paying for information of intelligence value (whereabouts of an isolated US Soldier). Regardless, we got him back. He’s a Soldier and will probably continue to suffer for his crappy choices.
Oh btw,
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/no-prisoner-of-war-bowe-bergdahl-did-not-get-americans-killed-7945b45b5359
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/no-prisoner-of-war-bowe-bergdahl-did-not-get-americans-killed-7945b45b5359
Your linked article is a bunch garbage. Sorry, just sayin, and if the illogic of the author’s argument really needs to be explained to you, I’m not sure I want to take the time to do so.
So again –
Your linked article is a bunch of garbage, just sayin. 🙂
You seem enamored of the “oh by the way” as a device to emphasize your point.
Oh by the way, your full of shit.
Frosty! You are welcome to twist the truth however you want to for whatever reasons you wish. You are NOT welcome to insist that any of the rest of it accept what you say as being rounded in reality.
Sure, there are many documented cases of prisoner exchanges. So what? Our historic view of prisoner exchanges has nothing to do with this craziness, or your flawed argument.
You apparently equate dealing with declared enemies the same as with terrorists? It’s not. Exchanging peer prisoners is something that is done with declared enemies. So, even if we used Geneva rules (which we are under no obligation to do) did we have a few of their deserters who were exchanged for Bow? Nope.
But thanks for playing.
TpResident said from the beginning that he wanted to close Gitmo. Now, he’s throwing out five fish for every one piece of bait. And, when it comes back to bite him in the ass, he does some staged thing like the youtube interviews, to cover up whatever it is.
First of all, bodaprez doesn’t lead anything. He doesn’t run anything. He doesn’t even lead the dog around on a walk, he just follows, hanging onto the leash.
It is one faux pas after another, with (seriously) worse lies than anything bernutsky could cook up, from a spoiled, lazy, self-serving brat who doesn’t give a crap about anything but the suit and tie looking good together.
My sincere hope is that when he actually leaves the White House – and he will, because he’s about as popular as Claudius the false Danish King – that he will fade into ingnominious obscurity as have other presidents like Harrison and Tyler. If, when someone asks about this presidency, the response is ‘Who?’ that should be sufficient.
Unfortunately, he won’t. He will stick around and shoot his mouth off about the next president and try to look like he is a big shot.
My worry is that once he is out of office he will visit some of his good friends in the middle east and do some sharing with them.
I’m not understanding why anyone is surprised with the handling of this case. This Bergdahl exchange is just an increase in the level of incompetence the pentagon and government display during investigations, no matter which party is in charge.
As an Air Force vet, I remember the bumbling of the Jill Metzger investigation back in 2006 after she was “kidnapped” when all the evidence called BS on her multiple versions of the story. The AF and the administration swept the facts under the rug and gave her 100% disability instead.
BS like this is will never end, because the people in this country with real power (IE Money) are at the controls, not law abiding citizens who seek the real truth.
Cover-ups, cover-ups. Sooo man cover-ups. Let me count them…Er, um…I ran out fingers…
Use your toes!
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I don’t think all of us readers here have enough toes to count all the coverups in the last 6 years…
I am still of the firm belief that the Benghazi event was meant to offer up Stevens for the roll that Bergdahl ended up playing.
Stevens was supposed to be captured alive. But, the shooters intruded on the program and everything went sideways.
I also believe that there was more there than just Stevens as part of the deal. Intel and lots of money.
Yeah, I’m saying treason.
And any time someone even thinks that, views of Al Sharpton and the Congressional Black Caucus and most of the pResident’s sycophants scream “Racism” until they’re all black in the face.
Good one!!!
Eddie Slovik stood before the firing squad without having directly caused any deaths. Bergdahl is responsible for the deaths of multiple Soldiers. Can we hope that the Army will have the balls to dispose of him accordingly?
Screw Bergdahl. I still think we should have left him there to get his head cut off.
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Leavenworth with him…
Two countries are at war and both sides hold prisoners. At the end of the conflict, all prisoners are released and repatriated. Makes sense. Now, same scenario except that one of the parties is comprised of terrorists who, for propaganda and religious purposes, executes prisoners, usually by beheading them. Occasionally, the party demands money or release of captive terrorists for release of one of its prisoners. More important, the terrorists threaten to execute particular prisoners if their demands are not met. Clearly, this is not at all like the POW exchanges that traditionally occur at the end of a war and, sometimes, during a war. This is something very different. So, what does a nation do when one of its own is a pawn in this repugnant situation? Does the nation negotiate with the terrorists and thereby ensure that there will be recurrences? Or does it refuse to negotiate, knowing that, by its refusal, the terrorists will murder the prisoners? Time was that, officially, at least, civilized nations did not negotiate with terrorists. Those days seems to be gone. The US negotiates now negotiates with terrorists, as do other countries. It is stupid to do so for it only emboldens terrorists to kidnap more people, civilians and military alike, and to demand more from the nation their prisoners’ nation. And that raises another point going to the negotiation. Is it a negotiation at all? Or is it something else entirely? Does a common kidnapper negotiate or does he make a demand and that’s that? It’s nearly comical to imagine two sides, kidnapper and police, hashing out the terms of a deal that will satisfy them both. I’m not talking about hostage situations. In those cases, the surrender of the hostage taker or his death is the expected outcome. When it comes to terrorists and “negotiating” with them, neither of those outcomes is part of the bargain.
I’ve said it once I’ll say it again they ain’t doing crap to this turd. How do you say… Hmmmm oh yes if I was white he would be my Son Lol Bahahaha.