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Members of Congress on Monday learned they were not among the top 90 people to be told of the deal President Obama cut with terrorists for the release of five top Taliban commanders at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier.
And they now have a few questions about that.
Congress held a behind-closed-doors hearing on the deal for Bergdahl. Some of the details presented were classified, others not.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told WND: “Today my colleagues and I were informed that as many as 80 to 90 Obama administration officials were aware of the plan to exchange Sgt. Bergdahl for five dangerous terrorists before a single member of Congress was informed.”
Meadows said it is “wholly unacceptable that President Obama knowingly chose to completely bypass Congress.”
The congressman said his question for the White House now is: “How many Qatar officials knew about the deal before a single member of Congress was made aware?”
WND has reported the strong criticism of Obama’s decision to go ahead with the terrorists-for-soldier swap.
For example, a commentary by WND CEO Joseph Farah on Monday points out that Obama’s decision “to trade five battle-hardened Taliban commanders, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands, for deserter-collaborator Bowe Bergdahl was unanimously rejected by both houses of Congress, including the Democrat-controlled Senate, when the proposal was brought to Congress in 2011 and 2013.”
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