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 \u201cimminent danger” of dying soon?<\/p>\n
Well, seems that \u201cconcern\u201d apparently was misplaced. If such a concern ever existed at all – and wasn\u2019t just more Administration dissembling to hide the real<\/em> reason the deal was jammed through so quickly.<\/p>\n US medical personnel have now had a chance to examine Bergdahl and evaluate his post-release physical condition. He\u2019s been examined.<\/p>\n He was reportedly found to be \u201dhealthier than expected\u201d and \u201cphysically sound\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 So much for his being in “imminent danger” of death.<\/p>\n Look, I don’t have a clue as to Bergdahl’s current physical condition.\u00a0 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”.<\/p>\n This new information clearly disproves the Administration’s claim regarding why the deal for Bergdahl’s release was expedited.\u00a0 Clearly Bergdahl\u2019s life was not in any “imminent danger” of death due to poor health.<\/p>\n Hell, even Senator Diane Feinstein, D-CA – a key Administration ally who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee – isn\u2019t buying it. When asked her opinion regarding an imminent threat to Berghdal\u2019s life, she stated:\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think there was a credible threat. I have no information that there was.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n At this point I’m not inclined to write this one off as just a simple error by the Administration, either.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The former shows gross incompetence; the latter is reprehensible behavior.\u00a0 Neither is acceptable.<\/p>\n Now, why would the Administration dissemble about the reason for expediting the deal for Bergdahl’s release? You don\u2019t suppose the real<\/em> 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?<\/p>\n Nah. This Administration would never<\/em> do something like that!\u00a0 Why, how dare<\/span> anyone suggest such a thing!<\/p>\n Yeah, right. And I\u2019m the freaking rightful Emperor of China, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"