Is the legacy of the Bergdahl swap putting American national security at risk?
"Since I've been President," Barack Obama said during his 2015 State of the Union address, "we've worked responsibly to cut the population of GTMO in half."
"Now it's time to finish the job," he continued. "And I will not relent in my determination to shut it down. It's not who we are."
Just how responsible the administration has been in pursuit of this mission is debatable. Perhaps understandably, the president failed to mention that his definition of what is responsible apparently includes breaking the law.
When the Pentagon agreed to the swap of five Taliban commanders detained in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and rushed to spirit those prisoners away, the Government Accountability Office determined that the Pentagon violated the 2014 Department of Defense Appropriations Act by failing to provide Congress with the minimum 30-day notice.
The dangerous precedents set as a result of that exchange are still coming to light...Also read:
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