Congressional report suggests Bergdahl swap was 'illegal'

A new congressional report seen by The Washington Post says the 2014 prisoner swap, in which five Taliban prisoners were released in exchange for American captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was “illegal”, the newspaper reported Thursday.

After a year-and-a-half-long investigation, the House Armed Services Committee’s Republican majority renewed assertions that the decision to send the senior Taliban figures to Qatar without notifying Congress violated several laws.