With the U.S. Army planning to try Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for desertion, a Florida congressman focused his fire on the Obama administration exchanging terrorist prisoners this week.
U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., who served in the Navy, was a military prosecutor and currently chairs the U.S. House National Security Subcommittee despite just starting his second term in Congress, slammed the Obama administration on Thursday for negotiating to release Bergdahl in exchange for five captured terrorists.
“President Obama’s release of five seasoned Taliban terrorists harmed the national security of the United States,” DeSantis said on Wednesday.
“The Obama administration deceptively lionized the service record of Bowe Bergdahl as a way to distract from the gravity of releasing such hardened terrorists, and it was the outcry from Bergdahl’s unit members that demonstrated the problems with the Obama narrative,” DeSantis added. “Deserting during wartime is an extremely serious offense and Bergdahl’s conduct needs to be judged at a court-martial.”
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