How Obama Convinced His Spies to Support the Taliban Prisoner Release
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The Pentagon and the nation’s top intelligence official opposed releasing the Gitmo Five in 2012. This time around the White House got what it wanted when the Taliban was ready to deal.
Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community and military were opposed to freeing five senior Taliban commanders in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when the White House first began exploring the prisoner swap in 2011 and 2012.
