This June marks 10 years since President Obama approved a lopsided and politicized prisoner trade by freeing five Taliban leaders from military detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
In early 2014, Bergdahl had been a Taliban hostage for nearly five years, had spent more than three of those years in a small metal cage, and was the longest-held American prisoner of war since Vietnam. But as news spread following the trade that Bergdahl had intentionally walked off his outpost alone and unarmed into enemy territory, the deal that Obama announced in the…
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