Bergdahl should be tried for treason. Obama should be investigated in order to determine how much of this he knew before he traded the Taliban jihadis for Bergdahl, and if necessary, tried as well. But that won’t happen. A teary-eyed Boehner will explain that the five jihadis just had to be traded for Bergdahl, and while he would have preferred to send back just four, he will settle.
“Bergdahl’s team leader: Intercepted radio chatter said he sought talks with the Taliban,” CNN, June 3, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
(CNN) – Former Army Sgt. Evan Buetow was the team leader with Bowe Bergdahl the night Bergdahl disappeared.
“Bergdahl is a deserter, and he’s not a hero,” says Buetow. “He needs to answer for what he did.”
Within days of his disappearance, says Buetow, teams monitoring radio chatter and cell phone communications intercepted an alarming message: The American is in Yahya Khel (a village two miles away). He’s looking for someone who speaks English so he can talk to the Taliban.
“I heard it straight from the interpreter’s lips as he heard it over the radio,” said Buetow. “There’s a lot more to this story than a soldier walking away.”
The Army will review the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “in a comprehensive, coordinated effort,” Secretary of the Army John McHugh said Tuesday.
The review will include speaking with Bergdahl “to better learn from him the circumstances of his disappearance and captivity,” he said.
The night Bergdahl disappeared, says Buetow, the platoon was at a small outpost, consisting of two bunkers and a perimeter of military trucks. Buetow was in one of the bunkers, and Bergdahl was supposed to be in a tent by one of the trucks.
Then a call came through on the radio.
“I’ll never forget that line, ‘Has anyone seen Bergdahl?'” says Buetow.
Firsthand accounts from soldiers in his platoon say Bergdahl disappeared while he was on guard duty.
Buetow says Bergdahl was about to go on guard duty, but when a fellow soldier went to wake him, he was not in his tent. He had left behind his weapons, his bullet-proof vest, and night vision gear.
“I immediately knew, I said, ‘He walked away. He walked away,'” said Buetow.
Bergdahl walked off the observation post with nothing more than a compass, a knife, water, a digital camera and a diary, according to firsthand accounts from soldiers in his platoon.
Read: Fellow soldiers call Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, not a hero
Buetow was involved in the immediate search for Bergdahl, pushing a patrol into a nearby local village.
“Immediately as we left the base, two small boys walked up to us, and they told us that they saw an American crawling in the weeds by himself,” said the former Army sergeant. The search followed that lead, and others, for months.
“For 60 days or more, I remember, just straight, all we did was search for Bergdahl,” said Buetow, “essentially chasing a ghost because we never came up with anything.”
At least six soldiers were killed in subsequent searches for him, according to soldiers involved in those operations.
The Pentagon was not able to provide details on specific operations in which any soldiers were killed during that time were involved.
Buetow says even though those operations were not “directed missions” to search for Bergdahl, there was an underlying premise of acting on intelligence to find the missing soldier.
“The fact of the matter is, when those soldiers were killed, they would not have been where they were at if Bergdahl hadn’t left,” says Buetow. “Bergdahl leaving changed the mission.”Many soldiers in Bergdahl’s platoon said attacks seemed to increase against the United States in Paktika province in the days and weeks following his disappearance.
“Following his disappearance, IEDs started going off directly under the trucks. They were getting perfect hits every time. Their ambushes were very calculated, very methodical,” said Buetow.
It was “very suspicious,” says Buetow, noting that Bergdahl knew sensitive information about the movement of U.S. trucks, the weaponry on those trucks, and how soldiers would react to attacks.
“We were incredibly worried” that Bergdahl was giving up information, either under torture, or otherwise, says Buetow….
Jacksonl03 says
I’ve never thought much of Obama, but I always attributed his incompetence to plain ordinary progressive stupidity and have not yet bought into the many conspiracy theories as to his origin, intentions to undermine America, his Islamic beliefs, etcetera, etcetera.
My thoughts are beginning to change: If this information re Bergdahl proves to be correct I don’t think even Obama can be this honestly stupid. He had to do this intentionally.
marken says
If we consider his pro-Mohammadan beliefs and tendencies, yes, he is an idiot. But if we think he is an idiot because he lacks political sense or wisdom, experience or intelligence, i don’t think so. He stated he would side with the Mohammadans, he more or less defined it his duty to defend his dead prophet (who for the most part we know to be a work of political fiction)and to use the power of his office to fight against the so called stereotypes that Mohammadans have brought on themselves by their own consistent actions!
Zionita says
You’re a nutter. Obama is not Muslim.
RG says
Ahemmm! Yeah right! Ahemmm! Neither was mohammed!
Teepa says
You are the idiot!
Tradewinds says
No, you’re the nutter, Zionita. Hussein Obama is a sub rosa Muslim.
John C. Barile says
Sub rosa–a closet Muslim still smells as sweet.
Zionita says
You are delusional.
BT says
Your 2nd statement is correct. Obama is harming our Country willfully and intentionally. I wouldn’t say that unless I am absolutely certain. I evaluated many of his speeches, his comments, etc. and I came to this conclusion.
His upbringing has a lot to do with what he does. He had an atheist mother, did not believe in God; his father was a very fanatical Muslim and hated our Country; He was mentored by a Black American communist, who taught him hatred for our Country and system of government, etc. and he was attending Jeremiah Wright’s Church for 20 years, The preacher of hate. These were the people in his life.
Obama put our Country down most of the time. Just listen to his speeches. He does not honor the laws of our Country. He said during the State of the Union Address in Congress this year that: “If Congress does not act he will.” He violated the Constitution too many times. He granted himself authority he never has under our Constitution.
israelfirst usasecond says
Kill them muuzlums and give all money bailout to the juice who bankrupted u with usury. Israel number one! Usa number 2 we love israel our master!!!kki
dumbledoresarmy says
Get lost, Jew-hater.
I won’t do you the honor of arguing with you, for as a wise person once said to another person, on the internet, “Never overestimate the intelligence of the average antisemite”.
Wellington says
The blood of each soldier who lost his life looking for Bergdahl lies not only on Bergdahl and his seemingly repulsive father but also on Obama, Hagel, Rice, et al. who brokerd this moronic, disgusting and quite arguably traitorous deal.
P.S. To those in Idaho putting up all those yellow ribbons, I say take them down and reconsider.
voegelinian says
“P.S. To those in Idaho putting up all those yellow ribbons, I say take them down and reconsider.”
And most of us here think that salt-of-the-earth Americans (e.g., Idahoans) all get it — i.e., that only those dastardly Elites are the problem.
gravenimage says
This is true. Almost everyone wants to think this is a straightforward story about a POW coming home. This is one time where salt-of-the-earth Americans may actually have a more difficult time conceiving of the possibility of traitors in the military.
People who have a fairly good grasp of the fact that we have enemies “out there” may still have a hard time understanding how many sympathizers have actually infiltrated our military, government, and media.
Tradewinds says
“You must be able to define your enemy to defeat him, and you must be able to define yourself to defend yourself against him.”
General Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Allied Commander, Pacific
John C. Barile says
Hmm. I’m amazed that Mr. Obama’s latest outrage has been exposed for what it is, and that it’s so indefensible–now that the narrative is exposed as a complete misrepresentation of events–it strips the American Flag right off of our poseur President, just when he thought he was securely wrapped in it.
Brian Hoff says
To get back our U-2 pilot who was shot down in the 1950 we have to sent back to russia 5 master spy of the KGB.
Wellington says
Yeah, doofus, but Gary Francis Powers was not a traitor. In fact, he was acting nobly in the service of the free world against the forces of totalitarianism. Huge difference.
Also, he was shot down in May of 1960 and he was exchanged for one KGB colonel. Just love how you get your facts down straight time and time again.
John C. Barile says
Wellington, you’re good. Spot on. Again.
John C. Barile says
I affirm what you say, Wellington. Powers was a brave man in a noble cause–even if, as a case in point, the KGB files on Ted Kennedy demonstrate the truth of Rod Porter’s observation about the West.
Kepha says
And Francis Gary Powers’ work also kept places like Turkey and Iran safe–especially considering how “Hoff’s” big hero Stalin (archenemy to reactionary America, after all) wanted to grab bits of eastern Turkey and unite southern Azerbaijan into the “fraternal embrace of Soviet peoples”. I don’t think Cornball Khruschev ever gave up such ambitions, either.
bobm says
OBAMA cloaking device compromised… .. America compromised..
Transmaster says
And this complete waste of skin thought he could head off the VA scandal with this, If there is anything he would have done to enrage everyone this is it. Well Oh Great Sultan of Stupid you sure can’t blame Bush for this one, you own it.
PGuud says
If you go on television and do not speak forthrightly (about the Bergdahls, Obama, or anyone), you are pussyfooting. If you are pussyfooting, you are weak and a waste of time.
Either tell it like it is, or back off so that others may.
Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.
enwhitenment says
Bergdahl senior is a terrorist collaborator.
Bergdahl junior is a terrorist collaborator.
Ai Barak wa’Hussein Obama Bin Faheem is the president of the United States of America lol.
Three people one agenda.
Why would you swap five taliban for one taliban ?.
I agree NO soldier should ever be left behind but Bergdahl left his weapon & his fellow soldiers to join the jihad.
Should have left him there.
RG says
Ain’t it funny how that Bergdahl senior suddenly comes out of the woodwork showing his true muslim colors, i.e. the perfect islamic style beard, the islamic quotations in perfect Arabic, etc, etc. So tell me Obama didn’t know about this American family’s connections to the Taliban when he negotiated for their traitor son’s return to the US. Talk about ‘if it was a snake it woulda bit ya’!!! You can’t make this stuff up!!!
Jerry says
In the circumstances, Berghdal should have been taken
out rather than exchanged.
Jerry says
On second thought, it would have been in
the best interests of the USA if Obama
was exchanged for Berghdal, and then
Beghdal proscecuted.
DJM says
“Obama should be investigated in order to determine how much of this he knew before he traded the Taliban jihadis for Bergdahl…”
He knew nothing until the media reported it. That’s how he learns about every scandal.
dlbrand says
I find it impossible to believe Bergdahl survived five years in the hands of the renown beheaders of the Taliban without, first, embracing Islam, and then, second, with shared interest and goals, there from colluding with them, working to advance their cause and harming whomever they could opposing it.
jewdog says
The spin doctors are going to have to work hard on this one. I’m really miffed. I guess the celebrity factor is so great when we choose politicians that sometimes there’s nothing of substance left.
Maybe someday we’ll elect an old, fat, short ugly schlub who actually understands Islam and other important issues in depth. People in England did exactly that a few years ago, when they elected Winston Churchill. Can it happen here?
dlbrand says
jd, you said, “Maybe someday we’ll elect an old, fat, short ugly schlub who actually understands Islam and other important issues in depth.”
I say we start hunting such a one; the time of fools “leading” us has long been overspent.
Gary Fouse says
Add that to this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305184/Bowe-Bergdahl-Taliban-claim-captured-U-S-solider-teaching-fighters-bomb-making-skills.html
If both of the above are true, this scandal is 100 times worse.
JS says
Wow.. This is even more serious than Benghazi.
akafir says
If this is true, what’s to stop Bergdahl from planting IEDs within the US?
Very little I’m afraid.
Budvarakbar says
As soon as Obie issues the pardon the rat will be at some jihadi training camp in Idaho, MT or OR training the boyz on IED’s
Rainman says
This is what it looks like when you lose a war. Thirteen years of war and the Taliban are as strong as ever. We should have been out of there within a year. We out gun these goat herders a million to one. Bush went in there weak, got bored and drifted over to Iraq and we ended up losing both wars. Obama should have gotten out of Afghanistan when he left Iraq.
When you lose a war, you don’t dictate the end terms, they are dictated to you. Losers are lucky to one prisoner for five.
Rainman.
dlbrand says
True, Rainman.
We were/are so damn fearful of “winning” this war, in doing so, offending the Muslim, we were stupid enough to believe we could actually spend the lives and limbs of our own yet deny them Victory.
Stupid enough to actually believe, as I have stated before, we could pay the Iraqi Resistance, many of them with the blood of our own on their hands, to give us Victory in this war.
Just as you stated, because of that, in Iraq, the Iraqi Resistance claimed victory–just as the Taliban have done and will do in Afghanistan.
WVinMN says
Since Vietnam, we have perfected the art of winning every battle/engagement in a war we eventually end up losing. This is what happens when you decide to fight “limited” wars. Either commit to total victory or stay home.
dlbrand says
“Either commit to total victory or stay home.”
Amen, WV. Amen.
Rainman says
Typo:
The last line should read: Losers are lucky to get one prisoner for five.
Rainman…….
Will Doohan says
What if all of this is not what it seems? What if he was a CIA agent sent to infiltrate them? In order to do that, he would have to gain their confidence by “becoming one of them”, so to speak. He might even have to participate in activities that might lead to the deaths of American soldiers. As reprehensible as that sounds, it would gain him their trust and allow him to learn more about them.
You can’t win wars if you’re not willing to do the dirty work that is intelligence. By publicizing EVERYTHING, we weaken our Military and Intelligence communities ability to win. I can’t say definitively that that is what happened in this case, but it is a possibility.
White Hunter says
Interesting speculation, but here’s how we know that Bergdahl was, and is, exactly what he’s been accused of being:
If Bergdahl were really working undercover for our side, Obama, Hagel, Biden, Rice, or Carney would have spilled the beans and outed him as one of our agents by now. That they haven’t is proof that he wasn’t.
Think back–they only out the real agents. Just ask Dr. Afridi and our station chief in Kabul.
John C. Barile says
And in Beirut. The Obama gang has more than once fallen prey to our very own “Venlo Incident [cf 1939].”
tom says
i dont know,but cant you make a citizen arrest or so. if Obama doesnt want to follow through.
when are you going to vote Obama out of office.
richardl says
it is standard policy to promote POWs with their cohort to make things fair for real POWs. The Army is one huge bureaucracy and unless a political figure (2 stars or above) orders it, they will simply follow SOP. I guess that is what has happened here. I believe this scandal will be the one that cracks Obama wide open and later this year there is a real chance of the impeachment process being started.
Susan says
Never leave a soldier behind? Unless they’re in Benghazi.
dlbrand says
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/2/administration-mum-on-bowe-bergdahl-discipline/#ixzz33ZVIbPZE
dumbledoresarmy says
Above, there was some discussion of Lt Col (ret) Allen West as potential Presidential material. (I can’t “reply” to any of the comments, as there is no “reply” button visible.
Salah commented – “Agree. Great guy, but he has already refused to run for office!”
Nolo praesidere, eh, as opposed to nolo episcopari?
Personally, what I’ve seen of the man, I like. The thing that matters above all else is that he’s **identified the Enemy**, and no nonsense about it. He’s read the Enemy’s book. He’s figured out *the* war that we’re all in – the Infidel war of self-defence against the 1400 year jihad. He’s found out about Charles Martel and Jean de Valette and Jan Sobieski and the rest, and he’s *understood* that they were fighting the exact same war that we all are. He’s damn well **done his homework**…as every single one of our military officers and politicians, all over the West, and in many a land beyond the West, *should have done*, long ago.
Keep at him, folks. Especially, those of you who are Old Soldiers.
Maybe, maybe, he can be persuaded.
The man who doesn’t want the office is, perhaps, the one man who can be trusted with it.
Salah says
“The man who doesn’t want the office is, perhaps, the one man who can be trusted with it.”
You couldn’t be more right. That’s why we must convince him to run.
That’s what they did in Egypt; they “forced” Sisi to run. They won’t regret it.
gravenimage says
Dumbledore’s Army wrote:
The man who doesn’t want the office is, perhaps, the one man who can be trusted with it.
……………………………….
This is often very true, DDA.
duh_swami says
Rasool Obama is a stealth jihadist. He has turned the WH (the peoples house) into a type of mosque from which he launches various kinds of attacks on the American people, while practicing every form of taqiyya and kitman known to man, and a few he invented himself.
He and his gang should be removed from power immediately, but there probably is no will to do it.
bewick says
On that description I think my ex must have been a muslima convert
Beth says
obama, on his own, – broke the law to make a deal with a known stateless terrorist group. The Taliban don’t have a country or state. And obama released 5 of their top men – for one that was a deserter – who he knew was a deserter.
It’s very simple – If you want to know what a person stands for – “You will know them by their works”.
mortimer says
No soldier will ever be able to trust a Muslim on the frontline after this. Muslims should not be in combat if there is any risk of them switching sides. Bergdahl and Hasan will go down in history of game changers for the military.
wtd says
<a href="http://www.bouhammer.com/2014/06/guest-blogger-raven-wolf-bergdahl-how-pride-and-arrogance-kept-us-from-getting-him-back/Guest Blogger, Raven-Wolf: Bergdahl, How pride and arrogance kept us from getting him back
Quotes from the post:
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This confirms one point made in a report by Brad Thor: Negotiating with Terrorists: Inside the Capture and RElease of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl:
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The trade that turned toxic for Obama: Taliban twist the knife with propaganda video of moment fighters waving white-flag-on-a-stick handed ‘deserter’ Bowe Bergdahl over to Black Hawk special force
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Exclusive: The story you haven’t yet heard about Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion
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UK Daily Mail: President Barack Obama defended his decision to release five detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
President Barack Obama defended his decision to release five detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl today, saying the country had an obligation to not leave its military personnel behind.
‘Is there a possibility of some of them trying to return to activities that are detrimental to us? Absolutely,’ Obama said during today’s press conference of the recently released detainees.’That’s been true of all the prisoners that were released from Guantanamo. There’s a certain recidivism rate that takes place.’
But the president added, ‘I wouldn’t be doing it if I thought that it was contrary to American national security.’
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Video of local veteran who served with Bergdahl.
“We didn’t leave Bergdahl behind…he left us behind.”
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voegelinian says
“The media blast that followed the Bergdahl video was what the RC-East Commander had hoped to avoid. The story was now out. Bergdahl who had been effectively a blip on the radar up to that point became an international star overnight. The elevation of status made him more valuable and Haqqani understood this.
I.e., Obama and team (with the help of news media?) pushed this into the limelight, in order to augment the deal, which effectively helped the Taliban.
David says
Zionita we know he was born a Muslim according to Islamic laws as both his father & step father were Muslims. We know he attended mosques dressed in Muslim clothing in his early years. We know he has lied about all these things, what else is he lying about?
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fobamamuslim.webs.com%2Fobamaisamuslim.htm&ei=0EGPU7CGL4WokQXOyoCYDg&usg=AFQjCNEB63GSr3q15d2EdjIUJinSQbThFA&sig2=k88sDipTmvU0OOkw-Nz_RQ
voegelinian says
He also attended a madrassa as a child in Indonesia; a madrassa that had some non-Muslim pupils registered as non-Muslim — and yet his father registered him as a Muslim.
Semeru says
Obamas father was an atheist by the time he married obamas mother.
Obama attended the Indonesian-language Santo Fransiskus Asisi (St. Francis of Assisi) Catholic School around the corner from their house for 1st, 2nd, and part of 3rd grade. Then he completed 3rd grade and 4th grade at State Elementary School Menteng 01, a secular public school.
The school was founded in 1934 as Carpentier Alting Stichting Nassau School (CAS)[1] by the Dutch colonial administration and was reserved for the children of the Dutch and Indonesian nobility. The Indonesian government took over administration of the school in 1962, and it was then run by the Raden Saleh Foundation.
Madrassas in Indonesia at that time where run by Islamic organizations or mosque, not by the state or a foundation that is dedicated to fine art
Raden Saleh was an Indonesian Romantic painter of Javanese ethnicity who pioneered modern Indonesian art. He was considered to be the first modern artist from Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies).
Walter Sieruk says
Obama and his administration have exposed their own ignorance , folly and foolishness be swaping one useless American deserter and most likely traitor for five Islamic terrorist chiefs. That these dangerous jihadists are now free and therefore free to to do more murderous evil . Obama should be impeached.
Champ says
Obama should be impeached.
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I agree, Walter! …if only
Walter Sieruk says
The extreme incompetence of Obama concerning this Bergdahl fiasco is unbelievable. The he wouls actually let five dangereous and deadly jihadists leader go free for one useless deserter is worse then folly.
gravenimage says
After Bergdahl disappeared, “IEDs started going off directly under the trucks. They were getting perfect hits every time.”…
Within days of his disappearance, says Buetow, teams monitoring radio chatter and cell phone communications intercepted an alarming message: The American is in Yahya Khel (a village two miles away). He’s looking for someone who speaks English so he can talk to the Taliban.
…………………………
This story just keeps getting more disturbing. I’m glad soldiers who were there are speaking out.
Kepha says
Here’s my take on the Bergdahl release: every American deserter or traitor (if such is indeed the case; and I think Bergdah’ls fellow soldiers need to be heard from) deserves an American firing squad.
As for the Talibs released, (a) I’m flattered that one American is worth five of them, and (b) at this stagae of the game, these guys have been out of the loop so long they’re probably of little use. And who knows if one or more of them hasn’t been “turned”? Given, if Buetow’s testimony is true, that the Talibs kept Bergdahl under lock and key, my guess is some of these released guys may well be highly mistrusted by the current Talib leadership. If it’s crossed my mind that one or more of the released guys may have turned, I’m sure the same thought has crossed the mind of a Taliban that is very serious about keeping itself from being infiltrated.
As for this further proving that the O is a closet Muslim, I continue to doubt it. As I have affirmed often, the O is a professional anti-American Leftist. His “warm spots” for militant Islam are of a piece with Eurosocialist advocates of abortion, Communism nostalgia, and the LGBT agenda making common cause with radical Islam because it’s carrying the “anti-imperialist” torch and helps them distance themselves all the more from the West’s Christian past.
Yes, I’ve come to see the O as politically cunning, at least in domestic contexts, but I am also impressed with the profound and possibly willful ignorance of him and his team.
Sweetness says
One dollar for five billion dollars? Saweet! I’ll take that deal!
Sweetness says
This whole $1 for $5,000,000,000,000 thing I’ve been promoting just might be accurate 1=5billion In some circumstances, eh what?
bicky says
This last episode by Imam Obama has just crossed “the thin red line “, so guys y are;nt the American public who voted him to this holy office keeping quiet ???
why are they , the media, the politicians not asking him serious questions ???
bicky says
This last episode by Imam Obama has just crossed “the thin red line “, so guys y are;nt the American public who voted him to this holy office keeping quiet ???
why are they , the media, the politicians not asking him serious questions ???
Being silent is also an accomplice to the crime.