US Officials Brief Lawmakers on Bergdahl Prisoner Swap

U.S. lawmakers differed sharply after getting a classified briefing from the Obama administration on the prisoner swap that freed U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from five years of Taliban captivity. The entire Senate met behind closed doors with senior State Department, Pentagon and intelligence officials. Republican Senator Marco Rubio emerged from the hour-long briefing unswayed by the administration's arguments for releasing five Taliban militants to secure Bergdahl’s...

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