Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller are back in the USA, and perhaps a bit of surprise is in order. James Clapper,
Director of National Intelligence
flew in secret to Pyongyang to bring them home, but of course you'll
have a hard time finding mention of that fact on Fox News, who gives
sole credit to Dennis Rodman, who claims he begged Kim to release the
American Prisoners. I'm sure he did, but I'm sure there was a bit more
involved in getting them home. Bae made a public statement thanking
all who helped and worked so hard to get him out of the north Korean
prison farm including
" President Obama and all the people at the State Departments; they working tirelessly hard to get me released as well. "
Fox Sports
mentions only that Clapper, who "reportedly" traveled with the
president's "approval" as though he might have done so on his own or at
the direction of Dennis Rodman. That's about as likely as the
possibility that any arm of Newscorp would acknowledge anything
productive having come out of the executive branch. Better to imply that it was all about Rodman and a presidential adviser acting on his own initiative.
