Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the classified file he read today on Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl does not include information concerning the note Sgt. Bergdahl left on his bed in his tent just before he abandoned his unit and was captured by the Taliban.
In a morning news show interview Chambliss said, “This article in The New York Times shocked me. This note that he supposedly left that indicated that he was sympathetic to the Taliban and unsympathetic to the American interest in this conflict was not included in that file, and I’m very surprised by that. Normally those classified files are pretty informative, but–I don’t know–I was pretty shocked by it.”
Chambliss also said that the file did not include any interviews with any of Bergdahl’s platoon members. “There was nothing in that file in regards to statements from those individuals as to what they saw that night, and there’s just a lot of unanswered questions,” he said.
How is it that the President believes that he can once again ignore the law? Better to ask forgiveness than permission I think!
Sen. Chambliss has questions, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has questions. They both agree that their Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was never given notice of an impending prisoner exchange and these two don’t agree on much! President Obama marched out the ever ready Susan Rice to once again set the storyline for yet another Obama foreign policy disaster. It’s inconceivable that President Obama would think that there would not be any political blow back on this issue. It’s a gross miscalculation to think that all of the collateral information on Bergdahl’s post abandonement would not come out. I’m sure Democrats fighting for their re-election lives are cursing the president in private. They are certainly starting to criticize him in public.
Other Republicans are weighing in on this issue besides those from Georgia. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R. Illinois) had this to say when Insider spoke to him today “The release of five mid- to high- level Taliban is shocking to me, especially not coming to Congress. You now are going to have five people on the ground targeting American troops, the Afghan troops and the Afghan people. There are a lot of questions that need to be asked here.”
The American people have been begging those in Washington to somehow find common ground that gets something done. It would seem that the President has finally stumbled onto that unifying issue. As the fellow next to me said “When those five terrorists start shooting again they won’t care if they’re shooting at Republicans or Democrats!
Thanks Mr. President…
