{"id":54688,"date":"2014-08-21T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54688"},"modified":"2014-08-21T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:10:42","slug":"gao-bergdahl-rescue-was-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54688","title":{"rendered":"GAO: Bergdahl rescue was illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=53658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bergdahl-and-pal-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Bergdahl and pal\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bergdahl-and-pal-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bergdahl-and-pal-500x291.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bergdahl-and-pal.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Auntie Brat sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/08\/21\/pentagon-violated-law-with-bergdahl-prisoner-swap-government-watchdog-says\/\">Fox News<\/a> story which reports that those vile right wingers at the Government Accountability Office who have determined that the rescue of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was accomplished in contradiction of the law that governs those kinds of things;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Government Accountability Office, in a legal opinion issued at the request of congressional lawmakers, said the Defense Department violated the law by failing to notify key Capitol Hill committees at least 30 days in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the report said the Pentagon broke another law by using funds that were not technically available.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO said the law in this case is &#8220;clear and unambiguous.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, as you all know, I&#8217;m glad that Bergdahl is back in the US and I&#8217;m glad that I didn&#8217;t have to make the decision on how to get him back, but either we have laws or we don&#8217;t. I know that if I broke a law that was &#8220;clear and unambiguous&#8221; this administration would have no problem hauling my ass into court. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely not calling for an impeachment or anything &#8211; the only thing worse than an Obama Presidency is a Biden Presidency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auntie Brat sends us a link to a Fox News story which reports that those vile &hellip; <a title=\"GAO: Bergdahl rescue was illegal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54688\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAO: Bergdahl rescue was illegal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54688","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}