The New York Daily News, a daily with a left-leaning editorial page, came out swinging Wednesday morning with an editorial accusing President Obama of “surrendering without honor” to the Taliban and betraying the highest obligation of his office “in trading
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Wednesday released a video showing the handover of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with members of the special operations team who participated in the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in Afghanistan, Sunday. According to a U.S. official, Hagel thanked them and told them they represented the true spirit of
Sgt. Evan Buetow was Bowe Bergdahl’s team leader in Afghanistan. Buetow says radio chatter shortly after Bergdahl deserted indicated he was seeking someone in the Taliban who could speak English. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Buetow says shortly
Time magazine is rushing to President Obama’s side to defend him against the charge that he negotiated with terrorists to secure the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The magazine tells readers that the maxim that America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists
The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity has raised a number of questions as to whether Bergdahl was captured or deserted his battalion and whether trading five Taliban officials for Bergdahl is a valid exchange to save a
Breitbart News had the exclusive opportunity to speak with Thomas Joscelyn, senior editor of The Long War Journal, an expert on al-Qaeda and its affiliates, including the Taliban, and the author of What President Obama Doesn’t Know About Guantanamo. Breitbart
After deserting his forward operating base in Afghanistan in 2009, Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal left behind a note saying that he wanted to renounce his American citizenship, according to Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin. Griffin said Tuesday on the Fox News Channel
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supports President Obama’s decision to free five Taliban members in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier colleagues say deserted his post and is directly responsible for loss of American life in Afghanistan. At
Despite the continuous stream of information surfacing about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s state of mind when leaving his platoon in Afghanistan in 2009, supporters of Bergdahl are still planning to hold a welcome home celebration for the young soldier, whom the
Now that President Barack Obama has traded five high-level terrorists for an American soldier who reportedly deserted his troops five years ago, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said it was time for Obama to bring back the U.S. Marine who
On Monday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration’s move to swap five Taliban prisoners for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl just on the merits that it was a bad
Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper reported on the growing backlash from U.S. military members to the Obama administration for the deal that resulted in the swap of five terrorism suspects for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a
In discussing last week his decision to eliminate essentially all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the time his term of office ends, Mr. Obama declared: “This is how wars end in the 21st Century – not through signing ceremonies but
Unless one has been through it, one cannot imagine what five years of captivity in Afghanistan might be like. I only endured five months of captivity in Kabul and, to this day, no one has ever understood what that was
Breitbart News had the opportunity to speak with Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ The Long War Journal, about the ongoing debacle over the exchange of five senior Taliban commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Roggio has
A former U.S. officer who served in Afghanistan with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl claims that soldiers were threatened by U.S. authorities if they questioned his story. After he was captured, Bergdahl said on a video from his captors that he lagged
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin believes President Barack Obama broke the law when he traded five high-ranking Taliban terrorists in Guantanamo for an American prisoner of war in Afghanistan who allegedly deserted his troops. She challenged the media notorious for
WASHINGTON — California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter expressed concern Monday at the level of urgency surrounding the decision to swap five Taliban militants for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and questioned why other Americans in militant custody were not included in
In a piece that former Daily Beast head Tina Brown declared a “conclusive” account about the newly freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a fellow soldier serving in Bergdahl’s same battalion recounts the story of how Bergdahl simply walked away from his military
In response to Red Flags Galore on Bergdahl Swap: We are all in agreement that this swap between Obama and the radical Taliban Islamists is Fubar. Now Secretary of Offending Americans (Defense) Chuckie Hagel is saying that Obama did not
On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, former Michael Leiter, the former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama reacted to last weekend’s hostage swap, which U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
A group of Americans are demanding that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl be punished after the Obama administration secured his release from the Taliban in Afghanistan. The petition was created on Saturday, May 31 after President Obama announced that the United
On “CBS This Morning” on Monday, former Vietnam prisoner of war Ret. U.S. Air Force Col. Lee Ellis expressed his concern about the way the Obama administration handled the negotiation for the release of Afghanistan POW U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe
(Reuters) – Three Turkish construction workers were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police building in east Afghanistan and three policemen were killed in an attack in the south, officials said. The Taliban summer offensive, launched in mid-May,
