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[khunsanuk]

King Kung,

 

Knock of the racist undertone of your posts!

 

Sanuk!

[Flashermac]

GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

 

 

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense broke the law when it traded Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners in May, the Government Accountability Office said in a legal opinion issued Thursday.

 

The department did not notify members of Congress in advance of the trade as required by law and used money not intended for moving prisoners from the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the government audit agency.

 

The legal opinion was requested earlier this summer by the Senate Appropriations Committee after lawmakers accused military leaders and the Obama administration of leaving them out of the loop on a swap that freed five Taliban combatants captured during the war in Afghanistan.

 

“We conclude that DOD violated [the law] because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,†the GAO opinion said.

 

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sent emails and made phone calls to congressional leaders on May 31, the day of the prisoner swap, the investigation found.

 

DOD spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby denied the GAO finding, saying the recovery of Bergdahl was conducted lawfully and the decision was made after consultation with the Department of Justice. Kirby said Hagel explained DOD's decision to Congress during recent testimony.

 

"The [Obama] administration had a fleeting opportunity to protect the life of a U.S. service member held captive and in danger for almost five years," Kirby said in a news release. "Under these exceptional circumstances, the administration determined that it was necessary and appropriate to forgo 30 days notice of the transfer in order to obtain Sgt. Bergdahl's safe return."

 

The GAO said the DOD also violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending more money than has been appropriated, by spending $988,400 to pick up Bergdahl in Afghanistan and transfer the Taliban to Qatar, where they must remain for a year as part of the deal.

 

The law is “clear and unambiguous†that no money can be spent “to transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay to the custody or control of a foreign entity†without proper notice, GAO General Counsel Susan Poling wrote in the opinion.

 

Bergdahl, 28, was rescued after being held by the Taliban as a prisoner of war for five years. He was taken after wandering off a U.S. base and the circumstances are under investigation by the Army.

 

The White House and Pentagon have defended his release deal against lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have said they overstepped their authority and endangered the U.S. by allowing Taliban fighters to rejoin the war in Afghanistan.

 

The military had been negotiating with the Taliban for years on his return but a deal had fallen through at least once before, Hagel told the House Armed Service Committee in June.

 

Hagel said the opportunity for a trade arose suddenly and DOD believed it was the last good chance to rescue the useless piece of shit.

 

 

http://www.stripes.com/gao-pentagon-violated-law-with-bergdahl-swap-1.299368

[Steve]

My apologies Khunsanuk, just one more......

 

There was a study by a Stanford Univ researcher back in the '90s. He did a study on crime and race in America. At the time he found that even if you removed all black crime stats from America, that America was more violent than pretty much all the industrialized nations. our non Americans friends see this more than we do, but culturally America as a whole has always been more violent of the industrialized nations. China is 4 times as big and a smaller prison population. India, 3 and a half times as big and a smaller prison population. Not excusing any crime, black or otherwise, its terrible. However, the media focuses on one thing and instead doesn't state the general state of America as a whole. Interesting fact though, violent crime is committed by HS dropouts 75% of the time. The rest are graduates but mostly barely so.

 

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053811/white-on-white-murder/in/5495477

White-on-white murder in America is out of control

the disturbing truth, according to the FBI's most recent homicide statistics, is that the United States is in the wake of an epidemic of white-on-white crime. Back in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, a staggering 83 percent of white murder victims were killed by fellow Caucasians.

many countries full of white people — Norway, Iceland, France, Denmark, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — where white people murder each other at a much lower rate than you see here in the United States. On the other hand, although people often see criminal behavior as a symptom of poverty, the quantity of murder committed by white people specifically in the United States casts some doubt on this. Per capita GDP is considerably higher here than in France — and the white population in America is considerably richer than the national average — and yet we have more white murderers.

To understand the level of cultural pathology at work here, it's important to understand that 36 percent of those killed by whites are women — a far higher share than you see with black murderers.

 

Also, we focus on violent crime and do not ever discuss the financial costs on white collar crime.

www.hhs.csus.edu/homepages/cj/gutierrezr/reimansummary.doc

calculates the cost of white-collar crime at $339 billion

[King Kung]

Racist!

[scoobydoo]

they should have their uk passport voided making them stateless

[cavanami]

It only gets sadder...

 

Sen. Jim Inhofe's (R-Okla.) statement that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is planning to blow up an American city.

 

The Obama administration's open borders policy ensures that ISIS, which is using weapons supplied by the U.S., won't have any trouble entering America to do so.

 

Similarly, the TSA admitted it's giving illegal aliens, which could include undocumented terrorists, preferable treatment over American citizens by allowing the illegals to board airlines without any form of ID.

 

Of course, the government will use the threat of ISIS to justify a militant police state.

[Flashermac]

Says the New York Times ...

 

A Terrorist Horror, Then Golf: Incongruity Fuels Obama Critics

 

 

WASHINGTON — He had just hung up the telephone with the devastated parents before heading in front of the cameras. Unusually emotional, President Obama declared himself “heartbroken†by the brutal murder of an American journalist, James Foley, and vowed to “be relentless†against Islamic radicals threatening to kill another American.

 

But as soon as the cameras went off, Mr. Obama headed to his favorite golf course on Martha’s Vineyard, where he is on vacation, seemingly able to put the savagery out of his mind. He spent the rest of the afternoon on the links even as a firestorm of criticism erupted over what many saw as a callous indifference to the slaughter he had just condemned.

 

...

 

http://www.nytimes.c...v=top-news&_r=2

[cavanami]

...lower than pond scum!!!

[Flashermac]

Obama appears to be content just to ride out his term to the end of it. Make he will come to life as we get closer to election time for Congress.

[cavanami]

He will come to life just before leaving office...to sign a mountain of pardons, thus insuring his finances for life!!!

 

Same as the now, multimillionaire Clinton....more pond scum...