
The news that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is to be tried for desertion casts the 2014 prisoner swap in a new light. President Barack Obama traded five senior Taliban leaders, who had been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, for Bergdahl–and did so without giving Congress 30 days’ advance notice. In doing so, the Obama administration broke the law, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That violation was not just a crime, but also, in context, a high crime.
by Joel B. Pollak26 Mar 2015, 8:52 AM PST0

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), a former Iraq War veteran who served in the 101st Airborne Division and planned and led daily combat patrols, is a traitor. That’s according to Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), who called Cotton “Tehran Tom”
by Ben Shapiro11 Mar 2015, 9:34 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said that at least one of the five high-level Taliban detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “could be expected” to re-engage in terrorist activities.
by Edwin Mora3 Feb 2015, 2:12 PM PST0

WASHINGTON — Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in an interview with CNN, indicated that he felt pressure from Obama’s White House to release detainees from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
by Edwin Mora2 Feb 2015, 11:20 AM PST0

Sen. Harry Reid once praised the prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl last year.
by Edwin Mora30 Jan 2015, 10:24 AM PST0

According to the Obama administration, the five Guantanamo terrorists they traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are “no longer a threat to U.S. national security.” That’s what former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel concluded when he signed the document setting
by Tom Fitton6 Jan 2015, 10:42 AM PST0