CNN does a special on the deserter, Bowe Bergdahl

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A senior intelligence official with intimate knowledge of the years-long effort to locate and rescue Bergdahl told the Washington Free Beacon that the details of that exchange do not add up.

The official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, speculated that a cash ransom was paid to the Haqqani Network to get the group to free the prisoner.

The Obama administration taliban-bergdahl-trade-officials-say/” target=”_blank”>reportedly considered offering cash for his release as late as December 2013. The State Department has repeatedly refused to say whether the deal that released Bergdahl involved any cash payment.

The ransom plan was reportedly abandoned, but the intelligence official insisted that there is reason to believe that cash changed hands as part of the deal.

H/T Richard and M

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  4. Kerry: ‘Baloney’ U.S. troops now more at risk

    Secretary of State John Kerry says it’s “baloney” to argue that U.S. troops will be more at risk in Afghanistan after the prisoner swap of five Taliban commanders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

    “Our combat role in Afghanistan is over,” Kerry said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked if U.S. troops were being put at increased risk.

    “We’re going to have very few people in that kind of position,” he said. “On occasion, but I honestly, I just think that’s a lot of baloney because, to whatever degree it may be true, they will wind up putting themselves at the mercy of those people who are very effective who are there, who will deal with those guys.”

    Republicans have accused the Obama administration of putting U.S. soldiers more at risk of getting killed or captured by swapping the five Taliban commanders, but Kerry said the new threats coming from the Taliban were little more than propaganda.

    “I am not telling you that they don’t have some ability at some point to go back and get involved,” he said, “but they also have an ability to get killed if they do that.”

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/06/kerry-baloney-us-troops-now-more-at-risk-189958.html

  5. Sunday June 08 2014 – John Kerry Challenged on Bergdahl by CNN Elise Labott

  8. NBC News: Pentagon Officials Say Obama’s Claim Bergdahl’s Life In Danger “Absolutely Not True”

  15. Chuck Hagel: Obama Made Call to Release Gitmo Detainees After Conversation With Emir of Qatar

  16. WASHINGTON POST – Bergdahl’s writings reveal a fragile young man

    Before he became a Taliban prisoner, before he wrote in his journal “I am the lone wolf of deadly nothingness,” before he ever joined the Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was discharged from the U.S. Coast Guard for psychological reasons, said close friends who were worried about his emotional health at the time.

    The 2006 discharge and a trove of Bergdahl’s writing — the handwritten journal along with other essays, stories and e-mails provided to The Washington Post — paint a portrait of a deeply complicated and fragile young man who was by his own account struggling to maintain his mental stability from the start of basic training until the moment he walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan.

    […]As he prepared to deploy to Afghanistan, Bergdahl began making long lists including one labeled “Movies 4 My Insanity,” which ranged from the Cary Grant film “Houseboat” to “Mary Poppins,” “The English Patient” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” He wrote about his fantasies and goals.

    […]In a file dated a few days later, repetitions of the phrase “velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper,” cover nearly two pages.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bergdahls-writings-reveal-a-fragile-young-man/2014/06/11/fb9349fe-f165-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

  17. Bergdahl: Freed US Soldier To Return Home

    Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will arrive at an Army base in Texas on Friday, according to Defence Department official.

    By Sky News US Team

    Freed American soldier Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will return to the United States overnight.

    A Pentagon spokesperson tells Sky News that Sgt Bergdahl will arrive at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas on Friday.

    He will then be housed at the Brooke Army Medical Center located at Fort Sam Houston.

    The 28-year-old soldier has been undergoing treatment at a military hospital in Germany since his release on May 31.

    The decision to transfer Sgt Bergdahl to US soil was made by his doctors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the Pentagon spokesperson said.

    http://news.sky.com/story/1281164/bergdahl-freed-us-soldier-to-return-home

  19. DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE – Revealed: Twin sisters lived in fear of Bowe Bergdahl’s ‘stalker’ father who was caught ‘peeping into their windows while they were in the shower’

    The father of embattled POW Bowe Bergdahl, who landed on US soil today, waged a sinister campaign of stalking and harassment against pretty twin sisters – even stealing a gnome from their garden and peaking at them in the shower, the sisters claim in shocking police reports.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657068/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-Twin-sisters-lived-fear-Bowe-Bergdahls-stalker-father-caught-peeping-windows-shower.html

  20. CNN – Why isn’t Bergdahl speaking to family?

    ….. might not be even able to order food in a restaurant!!!!!…. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙁 🙁 🙁