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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1340950" data-attributes="member: 2189">This is one more reason I posed the question about an intel op on some level.&nbsp; But the primary reason is that one of the former detainees has CIA connections and before capture had reached out to express a willingness to &quot;work a deal&quot; if you will.Thanks in part to some Wikileaks intel, CNN reported last Thursday the following as to one of the detainees.<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/05/opinion/gopal-taliban-bergdahl-deal/index.html" target="_blank">Taliban prisoner swap makes sense </a>Some may have assumed my question earlier about a deep cover intel op asserted Bergdahl was the op but Bergdahl may have just been a convenient cover.&nbsp;&nbsp; If so, pretty smart as everything is focused on Bergdahl while the thought is that the 5 detainees are still hardcore jihadists.&nbsp;&nbsp; From an intel POV, seems an outcome much desired if one is out to hide the truth (practically in plain sight) and after reading the above piece from CNN dated last Thursday along with a few other pieces as background, the potential occurred and thus the question.&nbsp; If true,&nbsp; from a certain POV, the swap would make sense.&nbsp; Maybe even brilliant from a industrial-military complex POV.The other side of this for Obama, if these 5 prove their worth, and it may not even take all 5, the claim of, &quot;you are releasing jihadists back into the field of battle&quot; could blow up in certain political opponents faces.&nbsp;&nbsp; And if Bergdahl had truly turned in a bad way for us, just as drones could take out the 5 former detainees, so could they have also taken out Bergdahl long ago.&nbsp; The fact that he&#039;s still alive either way raises some interesting unanswered questions.I don&#039;t for one minute think that the highest military command wasn&#039;t conferred with on this exchange and/or did not signed off on it.&nbsp; The outcome of this whole affair will be interesting to watch indeed but it&#039;s not the obvious that will be the most interesting to watch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1340950, member: 2189"] This is one more reason I posed the question about an intel op on some level. But the primary reason is that one of the former detainees has CIA connections and before capture had reached out to express a willingness to "work a deal" if you will. Thanks in part to some Wikileaks intel, CNN reported last Thursday the following as to one of the detainees. [URL='http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/05/opinion/gopal-taliban-bergdahl-deal/index.html'][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Taliban prisoner swap makes sense [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] Some may have assumed my question earlier about a deep cover intel op asserted Bergdahl was the op but Bergdahl may have just been a convenient cover. If so, pretty smart as everything is focused on Bergdahl while the thought is that the 5 detainees are still hardcore jihadists. From an intel POV, seems an outcome much desired if one is out to hide the truth (practically in plain sight) and after reading the above piece from CNN dated last Thursday along with a few other pieces as background, the potential occurred and thus the question. If true, from a certain POV, the swap would make sense. Maybe even brilliant from a industrial-military complex POV. The other side of this for Obama, if these 5 prove their worth, and it may not even take all 5, the claim of, "you are releasing jihadists back into the field of battle" could blow up in certain political opponents faces. And if Bergdahl had truly turned in a bad way for us, just as drones could take out the 5 former detainees, so could they have also taken out Bergdahl long ago. The fact that he's still alive either way raises some interesting unanswered questions. I don't for one minute think that the highest military command wasn't conferred with on this exchange and/or did not signed off on it. The outcome of this whole affair will be interesting to watch indeed but it's not the obvious that will be the most interesting to watch. [/QUOTE]

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