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Pentagon broke law with Bergdahl prisoner swap, government watchdog says


A nonpartisan government watchdog agency said Thursday that the Pentagon broke the law when it swapped five Taliban leaders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl earlier this year.

The Government Accountability Office, in a legal opinion issued at the request of congressional lawmakers, said the Defense Department violated the law by failing to notify key Capitol Hill committees at least 30 days in advance.










Further, the report said the Pentagon broke another law by using funds that were not technically available.

The GAO said the law in this case is "clear and unambiguous." The agency said that while the Defense Department defended the legality of the controversial swap, "in our view, DOD has dismissed the significance of the express language" in the law.

The report comes several months after the Obama administration released five senior Taliban members from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl, who had disappeared in 2009. Under the exchange terms, the five Taliban are to remain in Qatar for a year.

Lawmakers at the time complained about the security implications of releasing Taliban leaders from Guantanamo, but also about the late notification by the Pentagon that they were going forward with the swap.

The latest Defense spending bill states that no money can be used to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to another country "except in accordance" with a separate, related Defense law. That law requires the secretary of Defense to notify key congressional committees within 30 days before such a transfer.

The swap occurred May 31 of this year. However, the GAO report said those committees were only notified between May 31 and June 2.

"When DOD failed to notify specified congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of its transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Qatar, DOD used appropriated funds in violation of section 8111," the report said.

It also said DOD violated the Antideficiency Act, which bars spending by agencies above the amount of money that Congress has obligated. In this case, the report said the Defense Department spent nearly $1 million more than it had.


Where the "F" is Bergdahl??
 
I haven't heard much else about it but when this all happened there were a couple of reports that there was also a $5 million dollar ransom paid as well. Anyone else remember hearing that. If that's the case then obama's refusal to pay a ransom for Foley got his head cut off and plastered all over youtube.
 
Originally Posted By: jumprightinitI haven't heard much else about it but when this all happened there were a couple of reports that there was also a $5 million dollar ransom paid as well. Anyone else remember hearing that. If that's the case then obama's refusal to pay a ransom for Foley got his head cut off and plastered all over youtube.

This deal was with Taliban... Foley was with ISIS... ISIS killed in retaliation for air strikes we carried out in Iraq after being denied ransom... Taliban and ISIS are 2 separate diseases... They share the same ill symptoms against mankind... Both are sick none the less...

Foley was on a Nobel quest to show the world the realities of war through pictures...

Bergdahl was a deserter who got American troops killed looking for him...

Funny how that works...
 
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