Rep. Kinzinger on Bergdahl Swap: ‘This Whole Exchange Is Shocking to Me’
‘You now are going to have five people potentially on the ground targeting American troops, Afghan troops and the Afghan people’
Rep. Kinzinger: Taliban Prisoner Release 'Shocking to Me' (CNS News)
"This whole exchange is shocking to me, and I'm very disappointed," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), commenting Sunday on the Obama administration's decision to swap Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"Look, let me says this -- welcome home, Bowe," Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran, told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"There's a lot of questions about why he got captured...in terms of abandoning his post. So I'm going to celebrate him coming home. The release of five mid- to high-level Taliban is shocking to me, especially without coming to Congress. It says in the law you have to notify Congress."
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