Obama défend l'échange du sergent Bowe Bergdahl

Encore des retombées aujourd'hui de l'échange de prisonniers qui permet à Bowe Bergdahl de rentrer aux États-Unis. Le Président Obama a-t-il réellement informé le Congrès de ses intentions?

 "The United States has a “pretty sacred rule and that is we don’t leave our men or women in uniform behind and that dates back to the earliest days,” Obama said at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, the first stop on a three-country European trip.

 “Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he’s held in captivity. Period. Full stop. We don’t condition that,” he said.

Though congressional Republicans and some Democrats have been voicing their dismay about not being notified of the prisoner swap with the standard 30 days of advance notice, Obama asserted that his administration had been consulting with lawmakers “for some time” and had made clear that it might have to take quick action.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers pushed back on that assertion, saying Tuesday that Congress hadn’t heard from the Obama administration since 2011 on the possibility of a prisoner swap with the Taliban.

“I don’t know what he means by consulted Congress for some time,” Rogers said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in response Obama’s comments. “In 2011, they did come up and present a plan that included a prisoner transfer that was, in a bipartisan way, pushed back. We hadn’t heard anything since on any details of any prisoner exchange.”

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