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In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. Bergdahl was freed on Saturday after five years in captivity, and exchanged for the five Guantanamo detainees who were flown to Qatar, a tiny Gulf Arab country which has served as a mediator in the negotiations for the swap. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Bowe Bergdahl walked away before, Army investigation found

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

MSNBC host Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Chris Matthews: Bergdahl swap was ‘nasty deal, driven by our enemies’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican (Associated Press/File)

Rep. Marsha Blackburn: ‘Leave no man behind’ why people are upset about Benghazi

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from the Voice of Jihad Web site, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Taliban calls Bergdahl prisoner exchange ‘great victory’; video of swap goes viral

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Congress twice rejected release of Taliban from Gitmo in trade for Bergdahl

By Stephen Dinan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, says his group's three-day "Road to Majority" conference beginning June 19 will feature a host of conservative luminaries as speakers. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: ‘From Benghazi to Bergdahzi’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's disregard for law by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: When the president disregards the law

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will testify about the Bergdahl prisoner exchange before the House Armed Services committee next week. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Hagel to testify before House panel on Bergdahl prisoner exchange

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. Bergdahl was freed on Saturday after five years in captivity, and exchanged for the five Guantanamo detainees who were flown to Qatar, a tiny Gulf Arab country which has served as a mediator in the negotiations for the swap. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Bergdahl’s hometown scraps celebration amid desertion charges

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. The announcement that the U.S. government had secured Bergdahl's release and that it was freeing five senior Taliban figures from Guantanamo Bay has been portrayed first and foremost as a prisoner exchange. But the four-year history of secret dialogue that led to Saturday's release suggests that the main goal of each side may have been far more sweeping. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

HARPER: For a welcome change, media does its job on Bergdahl deal

By Christopher Harper

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, A Taliban fighter speaks to Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Members of Congress scrubbing their own tweets in support of Bergdahl

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan. The video, emailed to media on Wednesday, shows Bergdahl in traditional Afghan clothing sitting in a pickup truck parked on a hillside. More than a dozen Taliban fighters with machine guns stand around the truck and on the hillside. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

White House accuse veterans of ‘swift boating’ Bergdahl: Chuck Todd

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during his news conference at the conclusion of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NATO) in Brussels, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. NATO defense ministers gathered for the first time since the Ukraine crisis, and top of the agenda was how to react long-term to Russia's new military capabilities and its willingness to use them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Hagel to testify on Hill on Bergdahl deal

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2014, following a Democratic caucus lunch. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Harry Reid: ‘We rescue our soldiers first and ask questions later’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens at right as the committee's Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2014, following a closed-door committee briefing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Clinton promised to consult Hill on Gitmo swaps

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Men in civilian clothing lead Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in white, towards a helicopter in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Taliban video shows handover of U.S. soldier

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski walk for a meeting with Polish and U.S. soldiers at the military airport in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Obama came to Poland to meet regional leaders and attend ceremonies marking 25 years of Poland's democracy. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Obama fires back in defending Bergdahl trade — ‘We seized that opportunity’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sondra Van Ert, co-owner of Baldy Sports in Hailey, Idaho, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's hometown, ties balloons to a bike trailer in front of her store to celebrate the news of his release. (Associated Press photographs)

In Idaho hometown, Bowe Bergdahl’s legacy in limbo

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times