Bergdahl-Taliban Swap Stirs Criticism in Congress
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 2nd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Bergdahl-Taliban Swap Stirs Criticism in Congress
Michael Cipriano, RealClearPolitics
President Obama is facing mounting criticism on Capitol Hill for what critics are calling his unauthorized deal to secure the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The return of Bergdahl — who had been the lone American prisoner of war in the Afghanistan War — came in exchange for five high-ranking Taliban commanders held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Arizona Sen. John McCain, himself a prisoner during the Vietnam War, found the arrangement “disturbing.” “These are the hardest of the hard core,” he said on CBS’s “Face the…
