Did The U.S. Also Pay Bowe Bergdahl's Captives A Financial Ransom?

Photo: Bowe Robert Bergdahl

Shane Harris, Daily Beast: Inside the Botched Rescue of Bowe Bergdahl

The U.S. government paid a ransom in the hopes of freeing the captive American soldier, a Congressman alleges. But when the FBI went to get Bowe Bergdahl, he wasn’t there.

In late February of 2014, a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation traveled to the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan ready to bring home Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held for nearly five years by an ally of the Taliban.

The operation wasn’t announced publicly. But within U.S. national security agencies, word spread that the most well-known American hostage, who had disappeared from his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, was about to be released. It was a particularly anxious moment because the Taliban had recently broken off talks over a potential prisoner swap for Bergdahl.

But the FBI wasn’t anticipating a prisoner exchange. Instead, according to a member of Congress and another individual who is knowledgeable about the operation, the U.S. government had sent money to Bergdahl’s captors in the hopes of freeing him.

WNU Editor: From what I understand after reading this article .... lies, misinformation, cover-ups, and one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing (or or at least admitting it). Here is an easy prediction .... this story is not going to die.