Sorting Murky Issues on the POW Swap
"All five of the detainees in the exchange [for the release of the now-famous Sgt. Bergdahl] were members of the Afghan Taliban. And the Afghan Taliban is not on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
"In fact, the U.S. government had been trying for years to include the Afghan Taliban as part of the political reconciliation plan for Afghanistan. So if members of the Afghan Taliban are terrorists, the U.S. government had been negotiating with them for years. "
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