James Rosen
FoxNews.com
6/5/2014
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account and obtained by Fox News…
…The Eclipse reports suggest that negotiations over Bergdahl’s fate began within a few months after his capture. An October 2009 SITREP disclosed that Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Pashtun warlord controlling the broader network that bears his name, had reached out through Pakistani political contacts to propose a prisoner swap. A July 2010 SITREP stated that two months prior, in late May, “negotiations between the Haqqani and representatives of the missing US soldier collapsed.” At that point, the report said, Bergdahl was moved to a more secure location.
The New York Times, in its 2011 profile of Clarridge, described his agents’ dispatches as “an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports.” The fabled ex-spook made the more than one dozen SITREPs that Eclipse prepared on the Bergdahl case — all previously unpublished — available to Fox News because he wanted to demonstrate, as he put it: “We know what we’re talking about.”
The entire article, with video, is at FoxNews.com
…The Obama administration passed up multiple opportunities to rescue Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl because the president was dead-set on finding a reason to begin emptying Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a Pentagon official.
‘JSOC went to the White House with several specific rescue-op scenarios,’ the official with knowledge of interagency negotiations underway since at least November 2013 told MailOnline, referring to the Joint Special Operations Command. ‘But no one ever got traction.’
‘What we learned along the way was that the president wanted a diplomatic scenario that would establish a precedent for repatriating detainees from Gitmo,’ he said…
Update: Videos at Freedom’s Lighthouse:
- Megyn Kelly Talks to Six Members of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Platoon: All Six Say He’s a “Deserter”; Want Him “Court-Martialed” – Two-Part Video – 6/5/14
- James Rosen Explosive Report: Secret Intel Shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “Declared Himself a Warrior for Islam” during Captivity – Video 6/5/14
- Flashback 2008: Obama Says, “John McCain Has Repeated This Notion That I’m Prepared to Negotiate With Terrorists. . . .” – Video May 2008
