Author: Hondo

Remember warnings that those 5 Taliban exchanged for Bergdahl would shortly return to jihad against America? And remember our good SECSTATE, some guy named John (he served in Vietnam, you know) Kerry, saying that threats that they’d return to the battlefield were a ”lot of baloney”?

Well, it turns out that a few others were raising the same red flags. And they were raising those red flags well before the deal for Bergdahl was made.

Who? Try agencies of the US Intelligence Community, that’s who. That was the conclusion of a formal multi-agency assessment report compiled prior to the deal, prepared during deliberations regarding the proposed deal.

The report concluded that two of the 5 to be released would likely return to senior positions within the Taliban. The report also assessed that two others would likely return to the Taliban in some capacity.

Only one was rated as being unlikely to return to active Taliban membership (he’d apparently been in contact with US officials prior to his capture). However, that individual was reportedly also angry that he’d been held at Guantanamo after he’d been cooperating with the US, so I wouldn’t personally be surprised to see him return to the Taliban (or some other active jihadist group) too.

That deal for Bergdahl’s release is looking better and better every day, isn’t it?

Remember that claim by Administration officials that they needed to expedite the exchange of five Taliban for Bergdahl because Bergdahl was in extremely poor health? Health so poor that they were concerned that his life was in “imminent danger” of dying soon?

Well, seems that “concern” apparently was misplaced. If such a concern ever existed at all – and wasn’t just more Administration dissembling to hide the real reason the deal was jammed through so quickly.

US medical personnel have now had a chance to examine Bergdahl and evaluate his post-release physical condition. He’s been examined.

He was reportedly found to be ”healthier than expected” and “physically sound”.  So much for his being in “imminent danger” of death.

Look, I don’t have a clue as to Bergdahl’s current physical condition.  But I can certainly see that what’s been released by the Administration to date as a rationale for expediting the deal which gained his release is, to be charitable, “highly questionable if not completely inaccurate”.

This new information clearly disproves the Administration’s claim regarding why the deal for Bergdahl’s release was expedited.  Clearly Bergdahl’s life was not in any “imminent danger” of death due to poor health.

Hell, even Senator Diane Feinstein, D-CA – a key Administration ally who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee – isn’t buying it. When asked her opinion regarding an imminent threat to Berghdal’s life, she stated:  “I don’t think there was a credible threat. I have no information that there was.”

At this point I’m not inclined to write this one off as just a simple error by the Administration, either.  Either the Administration was so clueless as to let itself be horribly duped, or it was outright lying when it offered Bergdahl’s health as the reason for expediting the deal for his release.  The former shows gross incompetence; the latter is reprehensible behavior.  Neither is acceptable.

Now, why would the Administration dissemble about the reason for expediting the deal for Bergdahl’s release? You don’t suppose the real reason for jamming the deal through quickly (and in violation of Federal law regarding informing Congress well in advance of the release of any terrorist detained at Guantanamo) might have been to deflect attention from the current VA scandal, do you?

Nah. This Administration would never do something like that!  Why, how dare anyone suggest such a thing!

Yeah, right. And I’m the freaking rightful Emperor of China, too.