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In Context of Desertion Charges, Bergdahl Swap Was A ‘High Crime’
Friday, March 27, 2015 15:44
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart
The news that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is to be tried for desertion casts the 2014 prisoner swap in a new light. President Barack Obama traded five senior Taliban leaders, who had been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, for Bergdahl–and did so without giving Congress 30 days’ advance notice. In doing so, the Obama administration broke the law, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That violation was not just a crime, but also, in context, a high crime.
The term “high crimes and misdemeanors” is famously vague. And there is no chance of impeaching a lame-duck president with less than two years to go in office.
Yet if we accept that “high crimes” ought to cover violations that impact national security, the Bergdahl swap certainly qualifies. To trade five major enemy leaders for an alleged (known?) deserter who placed U.S. troops at risk is to undermine an ongoing war effort and to encourage future terror attacks or even kidnappings.
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