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Traditionings of the country. the operation to save sergeant bergdahl's life was fully consistent with the national security interests in at least five ways as well as the law. first, we completed with the national defense authorization act of 2014 by determining that the risk of the detainees posed to the united states and the american citizens and the interests were substantially mitigated, and that the transfer was in the national security interest of the united states. second, we fulfilled the commitment to recover all military personnel held captive. third, we follow the past post war gam...

Bergdahl's life was fully consistent with u.s. laws and our national security interests in at least five ways. first, we complied with the national defense authorization act of 2014 by determining that the risk of detainees posed to the united states, american citizens and our interests was substantially mitigated. the transfer was in the national security interest of the united states. second, we fulfilled our commitment to recover all military personnel held captive. third, we followed the precedent of past wartime prisoner exchanges. a practice in our country that dates back to the revoluti...

Was an opportunity here to bring u.s. service member in captivity home, to bring him back, and it was on that basis that we proceeded. >> and since the haqqani network has been designated by the state department as a terrorist organization, was there ever any concern that the u.s. effectively was negotiating with terrorists? >> no. wolf, first of all, again, what's important here is not who held him, but who was being held, and that is a u.s. service member held by an enemy force. and our obligation, our commitment, is to bring them home. second, we were engaged with qatar and qatar was engage...

Father sergeant juan e. he distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity while serving for the 3rd infantry information against an armed enemy in korea on april 27 28, 1951. that afternoon sergeant negron took up the most vulnerable position on his company's exposed right flank after an enemy force overran a section of the line. when notified that elements of his company were withdrawing, sergeant negron refused to leave his exposed position and instead delivering withering fire at hostile troops who had broken through a road block. when the hostile troops approached his position,...

Filled and horrific in your crimes, doesn't make you an enemy combatant. you have to be part of an enemy force. i agree with the analysis that being part of al qaeda creates an eligibility. i don't think being part of general hatred of the united states is nearly enough. where i slightly disagree, there's a supreme court decision, the one you were referring to, chris, involving the nazis. one of whom was a u.s. citizen. the crimes were perpetrated to be for u.s. soil. bottom line, this is not a case for enemy combatants, and there so many horrible crimes committed. if we start throwing the con...