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Home Front: Politix
Cat Fight
2016-02-20
The Justice Department's top watchdog is considering whether to review the legality of any payments that the U.S. government may have made for the release of Army Sgt. The Traitor Bowe Bergdahl and what role the FBI played in efforts to free the soldier from captivity in Pakistan, The Daily Beast has learned.
Of course, the Chump, er Champ, didn't know anything about it.
The department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, wrote a letter to a member of Congress earlier this month saying that he had opened a "preliminary inquiry" into the matter, which concerns allegations that the U.S. government paid a ransom for Bergdahl's freedom, and that in February 2014 the FBI sent a representative to the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan expecting Bergdahl to be released.

Bergdahl didn't show up and wasn't freed until May of that year, when the Obama administration traded five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the soldier, who had deserted left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured.

The Daily Beast obtained a copy of Horowitz's letter, which hasn't been previously reported. The inspector general's inquiry, which has not yet led to a full investigation, marks the latest development in the still-unfolding story of Bergdahl's capture, his time as a prisoner of the Taliban-aligned Haqqani Network, and what steps U.S. officials took to ultimately win his release.

Horowitz gave no indication when he would reach a final decision on whether to open a full investigation. He said that his office has been in touch with the FBI.
Leave Hillary alone or we prosecute the FBI?
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#3  The FBI budget has funds for foreign hostage ransoms? Riiigghht


must be getting too close to the Beest's indictment
Posted by: Frank G   2016-02-20 09:42  

#2  Whenever I am given verbal direction by a client to do a questionable action I always send an email stating the requested action and asking for confirmation that I heard that direction correctly.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-20 07:21  

#1  And the FBI did that all on its lonesome? I want to see the email chain.
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-02-20 07:17  

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