White House Acknowledges They Broke The Law In Release Of Gitmo Terrorists, But Claim

[Katzndogz]

Just how much of a prisoner was Bo Bergdahl?

In his e-mails Bergdahl said:

“The US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at,” he wrote from Afghanistan. “It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few good SGTs are getting out as soon as they can, and they are telling us privates to do the same."

"I am sorry for everything here," Bergdahl wrote at another point "These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live."

In his last communication home, he packed up his belongings and sent them back to his family.

In his final message, Bergdahl refers to having mailed home boxes with his uniforms and books.

“Feel free to open them, and use them,” he wrote.

Bergdahl's father encouraged him

Later that night, Bowe Bergdahl’s father Bob Bergdahl, a UPS truck driver, sent his son an email from their home in Hailey, Idaho, with the subject line: OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!

"Dear Bowe," he wrote. "In matters of life and death, and especially at war, it is never safe to ignore ones' conscience. Ethics demands obedience to our conscience. It is best to also have a systematic oral defense of what our conscience demands. Stand with like minded men when possible. dad."

 

[boedicca]

McCain's daddy bought his way out after he sang his heart out to the gooks.

Quite different scenario.

McCain was tortured; and I doubt the Vietcong were in touch with his family.

You are ignorant.

^^^ Diagnosis: Projection ^^^

 

[The T]

McCain's daddy bought his way out after he sang his heart out to the gooks.

Quite different scenario.

McCain was tortured; and I doubt the Vietcong were in touch with his family.

You are ignorant.

So are YOU.

FAG BOY

 

[The T]

mccain was tortured; and i doubt the vietcong were in touch with his family.

you are ignorant.

^^^ diagnosis: Projection ^^^

*bigtime*

 

[The T]

And that was because of a PEACE DEAL with the perps that ended the Viet Nam conflict you fucking DOLT.

Quite different scenario.

JACKASS.

McCain's daddy bought his way out after he sang his heart out to the gooks.

Quite different scenario.

wow, another progressive trying to rewrite history and slandering a true war hero.

And that he did. His masters would be proud...only HE/She got caught.

And what of the term 'GOOK" Howey Fag used? Typical Racist Liberal piece of guttertrash.

 

[Howey]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

 

[Howey]

 

[RoadVirus]

The White House fell for it, desperately seeking some coup they could trumpet as good news.

But in the end, shot itself in the ass once again (as usual).

 

[depotoo]

She also noted that, since the list was drawn up, the Obama administration was reportedly considering transferring five Afghan Taliban to custody of the Qatari government in exchange for the release of U.S. POW Bowe Bergdahl.The Wall Street Journal named the five men and all appear on the list released Monday as indefinite detainees: Mullah Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mohammed Nabi, Khairullah Khairkhwa, and Abdul Haq Wasiq.Read more here: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba: FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’ - Guantánamo - MiamiHerald.com

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba: FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’ - Guantánamo - MiamiHerald.com
Surprise, surprise!! Seems they have been talking about this swap since at least June, 2013. Be sure to read down in the article.

McCain's daddy bought his way out after he sang his heart out to the gooks.

Quite different scenario.

wow, another progressive trying to rewrite history and slandering a true war hero.

And that he did. His masters would be proud...only HE/She got caught.

And what of the term 'GOOK" Howey Fag used? Typical Racist Liberal piece of guttertrash.

 

[The T]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

Shot down over Northern Vietnam in 1967, John McCain was interned in the famous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ for five years. Beaten and tortured regularly, he is to this day, unable to raise his arms above his head. Although offered an earlier release due to his father’s position as Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), McCain refused to be released until the other POW’s he was with were also released, which lengthened his captivity by five years to 1973.

Fuck off and stick to something you know like violating the Bombay doors of other men BOY.

https://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C4692153AE9508/#.U4ueRzbD-M8

 

[depotoo]

MEN TOO DANGEROUS TO BE TRANSFERRED-
-*The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees — men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.Read more here: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba: FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’ - Guantánamo - MiamiHerald.com

yet he considered and released them.

 

[depotoo]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

You are one vile human being.

 

[Howey]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

Shot down over Northern Vietnam in 1967, John McCain was interned in the famous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ for five years. Beaten and tortured regularly, he is to this day, unable to raise his arms above his head. Although offered an earlier release due to his father’s position as Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), McCain refused to be released until the other POW’s he was with were also released, which lengthened his captivity by five years to 1973.

Fuck off and stick to something you know like violating the Bombay doors of other men BOY.

https://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C4692153AE9508/#.U4ueRzbD-M8

He was only in for five years, dimwit. Same as Bergdahl.

John McCain as a POW

McCain spent those two years at The Plantation, situated on a tree-lined two acres which had formerly been the home of the colonial mayor of Hanoi [16]. “The faded grandeur of the place inspired the nickname ‘Plantation,’ although the prisoners referred to the site by a number of names as well, among them ‘Country Club,’ ‘Funny Farm,’ ‘Holiday Inn’ … The Vietnamese converted a portion of the facility into a Potemkin village of sanitized cells, garden patches, and scrubbed corridors that would serve as a showplace for displaying the captives to visiting delegations and conducting photo sessions and other propaganda activities…The POWs lived in…outbuildings that once contained servants’ quarters and utilities…the cells varied from 6 feet by 10 feet to 14 feet by 24 feet, holding from one to five men. They were spacious, even by Vegas standards.

 

[The Rabbi]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

You are one vile human being.

And besides, what possible connection could there be between McCain's case, 40 years ago, and this one? What difference does it make?

 

[depotoo]

bet you wouldn't have lasted a day.

McCain Sang Like a Canary

Fuck off and stick to something you know like violating the Bombay doors of other men BOY.

https://www.rusi.org/analysis/commentary/ref:C4692153AE9508/#.U4ueRzbD-M8

He was only in for five years, dimwit. Same as Bergdahl.

John McCain as a POW

McCain spent those two years at The Plantation, situated on a tree-lined two acres which had formerly been the home of the colonial mayor of Hanoi [16]. “The faded grandeur of the place inspired the nickname ‘Plantation,’ although the prisoners referred to the site by a number of names as well, among them ‘Country Club,’ ‘Funny Farm,’ ‘Holiday Inn’ … The Vietnamese converted a portion of the facility into a Potemkin village of sanitized cells, garden patches, and scrubbed corridors that would serve as a showplace for displaying the captives to visiting delegations and conducting photo sessions and other propaganda activities…The POWs lived in…outbuildings that once contained servants’ quarters and utilities…the cells varied from 6 feet by 10 feet to 14 feet by 24 feet, holding from one to five men. They were spacious, even by Vegas standards.

 

[depotoo]

McCain Sang Like a Canary

You are one vile human being.

And besides, what possible connection could there be between McCain's case, 40 years ago, and this one? What difference does it make?

He hijacked the thread and I participated. I can't stand someone to make such vile accusations, when the truth is out there.

My focus is back to the origin of the thread. Sorry.
Will Congress get to the bottom of this, releasing those they considered too dangerous to be released?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

First you people were pissed off that Guantanamo is still open, saying that Obama broke his campaign promises. Now you're mad that Guantanamo prisoners are being released. Make up your fucking minds, Teabaggers. Are you even capable of that? Do you even know what the hell you believe? Or do you just hate Obama no matter what he does?

Please, stupid fucking Teabaggers, tell me how much I love Obama because I said something bad about Teabaggers. "Obama broke the law!" Obama killed an American teenager without charging him with a crime. If you're that upset about "precedents" then why the fuck haven't you brought Obama down for killing an American teenager without charges or trial? What kind of precedent does that set?

Maybe you don't actually give a fuck about the Constitution or the law, and you're only courage comes from the anonymity of an internet messageboard. How many guns do you right-wing idiots own? Are you only able to bear arms when a racist criminal is getting his cattle taken away?

Idiot, we were the ones telling you he couldn't shut down Gitmo because there's no better place to keep these pigs. You dumbasses wanted it closed. Way to revise history moron.

He couldn't shut down Guantanamo? Really? Why was that? "Because Congress wouldn't approve the funding to close it." Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Since when does a business need money to close? You cut off the money and it can't stay open. Obama's the Commander-in-Chief. He can order the US soldiers at Guantanamo to go somewhere else. Then Guantanamo will be empty and there won't be any reason to spend more money on it.

You people really don't see anything wrong with America confessing that they created a prison in a foreign Communist country specifically so that the prisoners in that prison would not be afforded any legal protections from the US or international community?

We built a prison for prisoners who haven't even been charged with jaywalking, let alone terrorism. Tell us all again why it would be such a bad thing if this gulag closes.

You must have got some bad acid today because your mind is more fucked up than usual.

Man child obie wasn't able to convince anyone on the mainland to take these piece of shit prisoners of war. And they are prisoners of war, that is why they aren't, haven't been and never need be charged with a crime. Prisoners of war are detained until the end of hostilities and a surrender has been attained. Do you see either of those two things happening any time soon? So since he couldn't move them he kept them right where they belong. And BTW nobody is ever going to close Gitmo Bay, ever.

Which brings me to a history lesson you apparently missed.

Gitmo was taken by the US from Spain in the late 1890's during the Spanish American war because we needed another harbor to avoid hurricanes destroying our fleet. I guess global warming must have been pretty bad back then. Notice we took it from Spain? Not the Cuban's who were taken over by Spain? When that war ended and Cuba once again became an independent state we negotiated a lease which was signed in 1903 and has been in effect ever since. Long before Cuba became a communist country.

 

[boilermaker55]

Oh! I wish the radical right would try to start impeachment proceedings. Please have them do that and let's see what happens.

Obama should be impeached and put into jail. HE has done so many things and the media and left wing nuts just give him a pass. If a REP president did remotely this they would have hung them from a tree.

holy smokes...this man is out of control
links in this at site

SNIP:
White House Acknowledges They Broke The Law In Release Of Gitmo Terrorists, But Claim “Exigent Circumstances”




We reported yesterday on the breaking of the law. Today they admit it, and claim ‘exigent circumstances’. Obama even has the temerity to say even though he signed the law, he has the right to ignore the notice part.

Via The Blaze:


In response, the White House says that officials considered what they called “unique and exigent circumstances” and decided to go ahead with the transfer despite the legal requirement.

Lawmakers weren’t notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred, according to the Washington Post.

More from the Post:

A senior administration official, agreeing to speak on the condition of anonymity to explain the timing of the congressional notification, acknowledged that the law was not followed. When he signed the law last year, Obama issued a signing statement contending that the notification requirement was an unconstitutional infringement on his powers as commander in chief and that he therefore could override it.

“Due to a near-term opportunity to save Sergeant Bergdahl’s life, we moved as quickly as possible,” the official said, the Post noted. “The administration determined that given these unique and exigent circumstances, such a transfer should go forward notwithstanding the notice requirement.”

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that the detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar, where they are to stay for at least a year, the Post added, “are hardened terrorists who have the blood of Americans and countless Afghans on their hands. I am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent Taliban extremists never return to the fight against the United States and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in Afghanistan.”

ALL of it here
White House Acknowledges They Broke The Law In Release Of Gitmo Terrorists, But Claim ?Exigent Circumstances? | Weasel Zippers

 

[boilermaker55]

Of course you don't get it. It has nothing to do with one being worse or better than the other what a ridiculous conclusion.
Just recently the radical right was p*ssing all over themselves about a marine in Mexico.
Now when the President does do something, which is not unlike president's before him, the hatred for him again from the radical right shows its ugly face once again.

You cannot have it both ways.

Indeed, government documents indicate more than 500 detainees were released or transferred from Guantanamo while George W. Bush was president. A White House executive order issued on the second day of Obama's presidency said, " The federal government has moved more than 500 such detainees from Guantánamo, either by returning them to their home country or by releasing or transferring them to a third country."
Try wrapping your miniscule brain around this statement. Your unadulterated hatred makes you look so foolish.

So does that mean that Obama is better than Bush because he released more, worse than Bush because he released fewer, the same as Bush because he released some?
I don't get your point here.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

He was only in for five years, dimwit. Same as Bergdahl.

John McCain as a POW

McCain spent those two years at The Plantation, situated on a tree-lined two acres which had formerly been the home of the colonial mayor of Hanoi [16]. “The faded grandeur of the place inspired the nickname ‘Plantation,’ although the prisoners referred to the site by a number of names as well, among them ‘Country Club,’ ‘Funny Farm,’ ‘Holiday Inn’ … The Vietnamese converted a portion of the facility into a Potemkin village of sanitized cells, garden patches, and scrubbed corridors that would serve as a showplace for displaying the captives to visiting delegations and conducting photo sessions and other propaganda activities…The POWs lived in…outbuildings that once contained servants’ quarters and utilities…the cells varied from 6 feet by 10 feet to 14 feet by 24 feet, holding from one to five men. They were spacious, even by Vegas standards.

Jesus you are some kind of special pile of shit standing above all others in height and stench.