This seems like nothing after the botched Afghanistan exit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/key-in-trumps-deal-with-the-taliban-ex-prisoners-whose-release-in-2014-unleashed-republican-furor/2020/03/29/abf7832a-6d3c-11ea-96a0-df4c5d9284af_story.html

This seems like nothing after the botched Afghanistan exit. Anyone know how many people are still left behind in Afghanistan? Is this the Washington Post attempting to rationalize the Obama administration releasing the Taliban 5?

Direct Quotes:

As U.S. negotiators raced to clinch last month’s landmark deal with the Taliban, several shadowy figures played a surprising but significant role: former Guantanamo Bay detainees whose release in a 2014 prisoner exchange sparked a partisan firestorm.

The so-called Taliban Five, a group of high-level militant inmates traded for an American during the Obama administration

The Obama administration’s decision in 2014 to free the five militants in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier held captive by the Taliban for five years, was met with scathing criticism from Republicans including Pompeo, then a congressman and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Donald Trump.

After his release, he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before a military court and was dishonorably discharged.

The same men, now members of the Taliban’s negotiating committee, were present when Pompeo attended a signing ceremony in Qatar to herald the U.S.-Taliban deal, which included a temporary reduction in violence and a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops in exchange for a Taliban promise to embrace Afghan political talks.

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