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GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

TheNextEra said:
No it wasn't foolish, but then we see you want American servicemembers left to the enemy.
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Yup that's what I said. :roll: Endangering the lives of other Americans by trading five high level terrorist leader types is not a good trade for one single soldier. I doubt they did that in other wars. But then we've never had a president who apologizes for his country.
 
American said:
Yup that's what I said. :roll: Endangering the lives of other Americans by trading five high level terrorist leader types is not a good trade for one single soldier. I doubt they did that in other wars. But then we've never had a president who apologizes for his country.
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Those 5 were cleared to be released under Bush. Take it up with him. You would rather U.S. servicemen be left to the enemy. That says volumes about you and your supposed "support" for military personnel.
 
TheNextEra said:
Those 5 were cleared to be released under Bush. Take it up with him. You would rather U.S. servicemen be left to the enemy. That says volumes about you and your supposed "support" for military personnel.
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Got a link on that TNE? You weren't trying to say the Dream Team of the Taliban were you?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Hmmm.. two threads, one saying that they found Obama violated the law, the other that the Pentagon did.
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Well, since Obama IS commander in Chief...........................
 
DA60 said:
'WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon broke the law when it swapped Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner in Afghanistan for five years, for five Taliban leaders, congressional investigators said Thursday.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said the Defense Department failed to notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the exchange — a clear violation of the law — and used $988,400 of a wartime account to make the transfer. The GAO also said the Pentagon's use of funds that hadn't been expressly appropriated violated the Antideficiency Act.
"In our view, the meaning of the (law) is clear and unambiguous," the GAO wrote to nine Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and various committees. "Section 8111 prohibits the use of 'funds appropriated or otherwise made available' in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014, to transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay to the custody or control of a foreign entity' except in accordance" with the law.
The GAO said the relevant committees received phone calls from May 31 — the day of the transfer — to June 1, with written notification coming on June 2.'

https://news.yahoo.com/gao-pentagon...5102--politics.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory


So, not only was it, imo, a stupid move (negotiating with terrorists), but it also appears to indeed be illegal.
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I heard this on the news this late this morning, and I think many of us agree with you it was a very stupid move to negotiate with terrorists - Heck , they said immediately the law was broken by failure to notify Congress 30 days prior.

BO made a dangerous decision.
 
Meadowlark said:
I heard this on the news this late this morning, and I think many of us agree with you it was a very stupid move to negotiate with terrorists - Heck , they said immediately the law was broken by failure to notify Congress 30 days prior.

BO made a dangerous decision.
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Yep ML.....Diane Feinstein was the one to set out BO and his team. Then they lied and Feinstein called them out a second time. Then BO backed down.
 
MMC said:
Yep ML.....Diane Feinstein was the one to set out BO and his team. Then they lied and Feinstein called them out a second time. Then BO backed down.
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They lie at the drop of a hat to cover their butts, good that Feinstein spoke.

BO knew he could never take it to Congress and get it approved.
 
Meadowlark said:
They lie at the drop of a hat to cover their butts, good that Feinstein spoke.

BO knew he could never take it to Congress and get it approved.
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Yep and over 60% of the population believes he will continue to lie.....so he knows he has lost the trust of pretty much everybody but.....his followers and Disciples. His last year.....he will lose damn near all of the Demos too.
 
MMC said:
Yep and over 60% of the population believes he will continue to lie.....so he knows he has lost the trust of pretty much everybody but.....his followers and Disciples. His last year.....he will lose damn near all of the Demos too.
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I agree, he did it to himself:
told whoppers repeatedly knowing he was on camera and those words would come back to bite him in the butt. I still enjoy listening to the die-hards defend him..;)
 
American said:
Obama doesn't give a **** about this. Remember their motto, "By any means necessary." He's the President, he thinks he can do any ****ing thing he wants, didn't he even say so?
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And he learned this from that stellar republican Nixon, who declared that "if the president does it, it's not illegal". There, nice and neat.
 
MMC said:
Yep and over 60% of the population believes he will continue to lie.....so he knows he has lost the trust of pretty much everybody but.....his followers and Disciples. His last year.....he will lose damn near all of the Demos too.
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Where's the link for that claim?
 
Montecresto said:
And he learned this from that stellar republican Nixon, who declared that "if the president does it, it's not illegal". There, nice and neat.
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Most people including Republicans were horrified at the stupidity of Nixon when he said it... why would he want to learn "stupidity"? That doesn't make much sense...
 
Ockham said:
Most people including Republicans were horrified at the stupidity of Nixon when he said it... why would he want to learn "stupidity"? That doesn't make much sense...
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Presidents aren't concerned about law. If congress says no, they do it anyway, covertly, as we've seen with Reagan with Iran Contra and Obama with Benghazi and FSA.
 
Montecresto said:
Presidents aren't concerned about law.
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And there lies the problem. Perhaps if politicians on all sides were concerned or ... better yet were FORCED to be concerned about the law, we'd have better policies and better politicians.
 
Montecresto said:
Oh dear lord. If we can't source HuffPo or MSNBC to prove a point, we sure can't source FOX which is 68% opinion.
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You asked for the link - there it is. :shrug:
 
Ockham said:
And there lies the problem. Perhaps if politicians on all sides were concerned or ... better yet were FORCED to be concerned about the law, we'd have better policies and better politicians.
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That I will agree with you on.

The great fact-checking crusade of 2012 by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, The Fact Checker, CNN Fact Check, AP Fact Check, etc. has told us something very important about the workings of democracy that we already knew: Candidates bend the truth, distort the facts, fudge the numbers, deceive, delude, hoodwink, equivocate, misrepresent, and, yes, lie, as a matter of course.

Both major-party presidential candidates and their campaigns routinely lie, as a Time magazine cover story recently documented, although the publication gave Mitt Romney’s campaign top honors for lying more frequently and more brazenly. Time is not alone in its assessment: Romney also leads Barack Obama in the Washington Post‘s Fact Checker “Pinocchio” sweepstakes. But the lies will continue until Nov. 6, after which the chief mission left to the checkers will be to determine whether the winner was a bigger liar than the loser.

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2012/10/09/why-we-vote-for-liars/

SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT WORSE ON ONE SIDE THOUGH.
 
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