{"id":50558,"date":"2014-06-11T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50558"},"modified":"2014-06-11T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:27:10","slug":"yeah-concerns-about-those-released-taliban-were-just-a-lot-of-baloney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50558","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Concerns About Those Released Taliban Were Just A \u201cLot of Baloney\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019d return to the battlefield were a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-06-08\/kerry-calls-threats-of-freed-taliban-a-lot-of-baloney-.html\">\u201dlot of baloney\u201d<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Who? Try agencies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/06\/11\/intelligence-officials-predicted-two-detainees-in-bergdahl-swap-would-return-to\/\">the US Intelligence Community<\/a>, that\u2019s who. That was the conclusion of a formal multi-agency assessment report compiled prior to the deal, prepared during deliberations regarding the proposed deal.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Only one was rated as being unlikely to return to active Taliban membership (he\u2019d apparently been in contact with US officials prior to his capture). However, that individual was reportedly also angry that he\u2019d been held at Guantanamo after he\u2019d been cooperating with the US, so I wouldn\u2019t personally be surprised to see him return to the Taliban (or some other active jihadist group) too.<\/p>\n<p>That deal for Bergdahl\u2019s release is looking better and better every day, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember warnings that those 5 Taliban exchanged for Bergdahl would shortly return to jihad against America? &hellip; <a title=\"Yeah, Concerns About Those Released Taliban Were Just A \u201cLot of Baloney\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50558\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, Concerns About Those Released Taliban Were Just A \u201cLot of Baloney\u201d<\/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":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50558","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=50558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}