Maverick Nails This One

.@SenJohnMcCain: "Mullah Omar has his Cabinet back."

— Bill Hemmer (@BillHemmer) June 3, 2014

The Washington Times has an exclusive up that there WERE guys who knew Bergdahl wasn’t worth risking any more lives: SpecOps wouldn’t go after him.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon knew Bergdahl’s whereabouts but didn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’
Special operations troops deemed too valuable to lose

The Pentagon on several occasions had ground-level intelligence on where ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive at various times — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operations commanders repeatedly shelved rescue missions because they didn’t want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a “deserter,” sources familiar with the mission plans said.

Commanders on the ground debated whether to pull the trigger on a rescue several times in recent years, according to one of the sources, a former high-level intelligence official in Afghanistan, who said the conclusion each time was that the prospect of losing highly trained troops was too high a price to pay for rescuing a soldier who walked away from his unit before being captured by the enemy.

Seems they had the measure of the situation even then. President Pivot and his gang of liars failed to realize despite all the sugar-coating rah-rah, troops have the measure of it NOW:

Anger explodes over treatment of Bergdahl’s release as veterans, troops call him a deserter

…Angry commentators took special aim at National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s televised remarks Sunday that Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction.” They also bristled at Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s surprise visit Sunday to Afghanistan, where he praised the operation that freed Bergdahl but never mentioned the desertion issue before an audience of U.S. service members who undoubtedly have seen the debate swirling around the case.

Even military voices warning against trying Bergdahl in the court of public opinion say the Obama administration owes its enlisted men and women more transparency.

“Hagel hopped up on stage saying, ‘Oh, it’s a great day. We got him back.’ Crickets. Crickets,” said Fred Wellman, a retired lieutenant colonel who as spokesman for Army Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq handled the communications on many crises that reflected poorly on the U.S. military.

2 Responses to “Maverick Nails This One”

1. nightfly says:

   June 3, 2014 at 4:06 pm

   This is where it would really help if the President sat through intelligence briefings every once in a while instead of hiding in a sand trap somewhere. No doubt the SpecOps assessment would be part of the intel given to the President to help him make such a weighty decision, but President Duck Hook either didn’t bother to learn or didn’t think it made a difference.

   I’d call it a fucking disgrace but that would be an insult to actual disgraces.

2. Syd B. says:

   June 4, 2014 at 11:06 am

   I saw a pic of Obama with the Bergdhal parents at the Whitehouse. It was entitled, “The traitor parents of a traitor with a traitor”.

   Quite clever, I thought.