As if the Obama administration's national security credibility wasn't shredded enough,
they've just released 5 high ranking taliban from gitmo in exchange for a US soldier who was captured in 2009. Much has been made in the past about the question of if those released from guantanamo end up returning to the fight... and here are 5 that definitely will. How many soldiers put their lives on the line capturing these guys? And how many will be threatened again because of their release? And now that our enemies have a precedent, are more americans (especially civilian contractors and whatnot) in danger of abduction in order to be traded for more jihadist prisoners? The door is open - we have openly negotiated with terrorists. Furthermore, federal law requires the defense department to notify the appropriate congressional committees 30 days before making any prisoner transfers, but the administration didn't see fit to inform anyone until the day of the swap. Further demonstration that Obama and his coterie are complete scofflaws with no regard for either the rule of law or the separation of powers mandated by the constitution.
"With regard to the transfer of Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay, we have made -- the United States has not made the decision to do that, though we do expect the Taliban to raise this issue in our discussion, if and when those discussions happen. As we have long said, however, we would not make any decisions about transfer of any detainees without consulting with Congress and without doing so in accordance with U.S. law." --
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, June 2013
Throw another scandal on the pile, I suppose. The IRS targeting, the NSA's mass data collection on american citizens, Benghazi, spying on AP reporters (and the associated perjury from Attorney General Eric Holder), Fast and Furious (and again, the associated perjury of Holder), Obamacare (website, exchanges, "if you like your doctor/plan, you can keep it," funding shell game, nonexistant promised reduction in premiums), the VA hospital scandal, Solyndra, the Justice Dept refusing to act on voter intimidation because it was the Black Panthers carrying it out, going to war in Libya without congressional approval, the selective enforcement of federal law, the overreaching "executive orders," drone targeting of US Citizens, nearly bungled us into the Syrian civil war - luckily we only had to lose international political face by having Putin of all people throw us a diplomatic lifeline... ok, now I've lost count. Jeez, that's a big pile.
. So for me, it's upstate. However, my friends in Queens and Long Island consider my hometown to be upstate. It's a vicious chain.