{"id":50438,"date":"2014-06-10T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50438"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:43:06","slug":"so-hows-it-feel-to-be-thrown-under-the-bus-mr-secdef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50438","title":{"rendered":"So:  How\u2019s It Feel to Be Thrown Under the Bus, Mr. SECDEF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as if the Administration\u2019s story about Bergdahl\u2019s release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2653672\/Now-White-House-says-Hagel-final-call-Bergdahl-criticism-Obama-prisoner-swap-mounts.html\">is morphing again<\/a>. And now that there&#8217;s pushback, it also looks like they\u2019ve decided on a scapegoat to take the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, SECDEF Hagel made the following statements to the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, Hagel said the swap was a unanimous decision when speaking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-27710528\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of National Intelligence, Attorney General,&#8217; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But now that there\u2019s been some pushback regarding the deal, here\u2019s what the Administration was saying yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Final approval for the prisoner exchange that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was made by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, members of Congress learned on Monday from administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They indicated (it was) Secretary Hagel (who made the final call),&#8217; Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said after a classified briefing, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2014\/06\/hagel-made-final-call-on-bergdahl-swap-congress-told\/\"><strong>ABC<\/strong><\/a> points out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also seems that 80 to 90 people in the Administration were aware that the deal was being made before it happened. In contrast, zero Members of Congress were informed a priori \u2013 as required by Federal law.<\/p>\n<p>For the SECDEF\u2019s sake, I hope that bus has plenty of ground clearance. \u2018Cause it certainly looks like he\u2019s about to get a close-up view of its undercarriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as if the Administration\u2019s story about Bergdahl\u2019s release is morphing again. And now that &hellip; <a title=\"So:  How\u2019s It Feel to Be Thrown Under the Bus, Mr. SECDEF?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50438\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So:  How\u2019s It Feel to Be Thrown Under the Bus, Mr. SECDEF?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}