More on the bergdahl flap

More and more of this story is coming out; and it don’t look good at all.

To pull off the prisoner swap of five Taliban leaders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House overrode an existing interagency process charged with debating the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners and dismissed long-standing Pentagon and intelligence community concerns based on Top Secret intelligence about the dangers of releasing the five men, sources familiar with the debate tell TIME.

National Security Council officials at the White House decline to describe the work of the ad hoc process they established to trade the prisoners, or to detail the measures they have taken to limit the threat the Taliban officials may pose. They say consensus on the plan was reached by the top officials of Obama’s national security team, including representatives from the Pentagon, State Department, intelligence community and Joint Chiefs of Staff. “These releases were worked extensively through deputies and principals,” says National Security Counsel Deputy for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. “There was not a dissent on moving forward with this plan.”

But officials in the Pentagon and intelligence communities had successfully fought off release of the five men in the past, officials tell TIME. “This was out of the norm,” says one official familiar with the debate over the dangers of releasing the five Taliban officials. “There was never the conversation.” Obama’s move was an ultimate victory for those at the White House and the State Department who had previously argued the military should “suck it up and salute,” says the official familiar with the debate.

via White House Overrode Internal Objections to Taliban Prisoner Release | TIME.

Suck it up and Salute? Yikes. Something tells me that this story is going to get much bigger; before it gets any smaller. 😯

Others: protein wisdom, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Ed Driscoll

Now a memeorandum thread.

On the Bergdahl flap

I am sure by now that you have heard about the flap involving Bergdahl.

Of course, it is being politicized up the wazoo, by both sides.

Anyhow, here are two links that I very highly recommend that you read; by people who have been there and did that. By that, I mean people who have actually served in the Military.

Check out BlackFive’s and Laughing Wolf’s takes on the situation.

Update: Now a huge memeorandum thread.

Update #2: More about the flap

Condolences to Greg Gutfeld

I admit it, I sometimes like to watch Red Eye on Fox News. It’s a light-hearted break from the seriousness of rest of the news day. So, hearing that Greg lost his Mother is rather heartbreaking to hear. It is something that I will have to deal with myself one day. 🙁

My Thoughts and Prayers are with Greg and the rest of the Gutfeld Family.

(H/T to Reason’s Hit Run)

Are Russian Troops hiding out in Mountains of Montana?

Normally, I do not give this sort of a thing a second look; but, knowing this Government like I do, especially under this President —- I don’t doubt any of it.

The Story:

This is the exact same region of Montana as I was living in before I returned here to NC to help with my brother in September 2013.

I first began my investigative journalism in Montana in 1997. Al Cuppett, a Pentagon linked source who previously lectured across America about coming martial law, had shared several thing with me about the Russian military and martial law in the Montana region.

A Montana state trooper had admitted to Al his experience about stopping a convoy of military trucks heading north west in Montana, hauling heavy howitzer cannons. When the trooper pulled one truck over, the driver presented an official DoD badge, but admitted he was Russian, as were all the other drivers.

via US Military Source Confirms: Russian Troops in USA | Alternative.

There is more here. I send those two links to Matt Drudge, I doubt he will even report on it; but I thought I would try. Again, I honestly do not much get into conspiracy theories; but this one needs to be fished out more and seen if it is true or not.

Noted crony capitalist defender John Stossel sells out to the GMO cronies

For the record, I never did like John Stossel’s brand of libertarianism. I don’t believe for a second that Stossel is the real deal at all. I believe his so-called “libertarianism” is all for show and to make a quick buck at the expense of the real believers.

So, this here from Stossel is no big shock to me at all:

It’s easy to scare people about what’s in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear itself kills. Take the panic over genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

Ninety percent of all corn grown in America is genetically modified now. The new genes may make corn grow faster, or they may make it less appetizing to bugs so farmers can use fewer pesticides.

This upsets some people. GMOs are “unnatural,” they say. A scene from the movie “Seeds of Death” warns that eating GMOs “causes holes in the GI tract” and “causes multiple organ system failure.”

via STOSSEL: Modified crops mean cheaper, healthier food.

The rest of it is basically your typical brainwashing from the corporate media and it should be ignored. I will admit to you that the GMO thing is really not my field of expertise at all; as I blog about politics and not food or farming. However, I find it very disturbing and quite anti-American that John Stossel, of all people; would toss Americans who have genuine concerns about GMO foods, under the bus like that. It just seems so anti-American to do something like that.

Of course, we all know that Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel only are open to patriotic Americans who share their warped Zionist worldview. Anyone that strays out from under that, like Pat Buchanan, does not stay long at that network.  Furthermore, we all know that Fox News Channel is not above being downright mean to those who disagree with their position on the Iraq War; the eight years that Fox News Channel treated liberals who dared to go on that network were proof of that; so this defending of the GMO’s by a Fox News personality should not be a huge shock.

 

Heh: Paul Ryan says he’s been mistaken for Anthony Weiner

The Video:

(Via Mlive.com)

Does not really sound like Weiner is too pleased with it either. Via Business Insider:

Former Congressman, New York City mayoral candidate, and Business Insider columnist Anthony Weiner doesn’t appreciate being mixed up with Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.

 During a Wednesday event with Michigan Republicans, Ryan recalled being confused with various other politicians, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, according to video posted on MLive.com.

“So you have these humbling moments in politics,” Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, said. “But that wasn’t to be outdone because then I went on this flight a week later and the flight attendents were looking at me and … finally one of them comes up to me, she says, ‘You’re someone famous aren’t you. Are you Anthony Weiner?”

Ryan went on to say he’s been mistaken for Weiner on multiple occasions.

“I’ve been confused with Anthony Weiner twice now,” Ryan continued to laughs. “I have no idea how that happens!”

Weiner, an outspoken progressive whose mayoral campaign last year was rocked by a scandal, told Business Insider having people mix him up with the conservative darling is “the final insult.”

“How much more can I bear?” Weiner asked

If I wanted to be a smarty pants, I could have made a about their noses being about the same size; but, I won’t do that. But, I can say this; considering Paul Ryan’s resume and Weiner’s public reputation; I’d say they’re about the same and have the same depth — much on fluff and less as much on substance.