Congress gets into the act

Who says there's no bipartisan unity on Capitol Hill? Both the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee now have joined the vast throng of politicians, opinionators, Concerned Citizens and kibitzers-in-general who have criticized the administration's decision to negotiate a prisoner swap with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Both these senators complain they weren't sufficiently consulted about this deal with the enemy to extract Bowe Bergdahl, sergeant and now center of controversy, in exchange for five top Taliban prisoners at Gitmo, and that they should have had more to do with the president's decision. "Input," we believe it's called in the current bureaucratic lingo. Maybe they've forgotten that Congress is part of the legislative, not the executive, branch of American government. And that there's a reason the Founding Fathers gave this country's armed forces a single commander-in-chief and not 535.

Editorial on 06/09/2014

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