Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Another Bart Simpson moment from the President..."It's not me, i didn't do it.

Now the White House says Hagel made final call on Bergdahl as criticism of Obama over prisoner swap mounts



  • Congress learned on Monday that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave final approval for the prisoner exchange that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
  • Last week, Hagel said the swap was a unanimous decision made by senior officials
  • Hagel is expected to defend the prisoner exchange on Wednesday in an appearance before the House Armed Services Committee


FInal approval for the prisoner exchange that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was made by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, members of Congress learned on Monday from administration officials. 
'They indicated (it was) Secretary Hagel (who made the final call),' Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) said after a classified briefing, ABC points out. 
'It was the president of the United States that came out (in the Rose Garden) with the Bergdahls and took all the credit and now that there’s been a little pushback he’s moving away from it and it’s Secretary Hagel?'




Obama has since his first innauguration has taken the position of an outsider. He's running against Washington in spite of the fact that he is Washington's most powerful man. He's always there to take whatever credit can be gleaned from the situation but never the person accept responsibility.  Recently, he said he would make the trade again but now he's backpedaling as fast as he can.

The strategy has worked well with his acolytes and the low information voters but at some point the curtain is pulled back to reveal he, and his advisors, are really pulling the strings. The dance of the puppets is getting seriously tiresome. 

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