In short, your hard-earned tax dollars went to setting free five of the most hardened, vicious jihadists in the world, and it wasn't even legal.President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Executive overreach gets noticed
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Agreed.
ReplyDeleteIn light of the beheading Obama's actions look even more outrageous.
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ReplyDelete"But it will be hard for the Republicans to sound more hawkish than the president, whose tone and evident intentions are strikingly different today than they were only a few weeks ago."
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