- The fallout continues from the Obama
administration’s controversial decision to swap five Taliban
fighters held at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl. On Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said President
Obama might
face impeachment if any other Guantanamo prisoners were
released without congressional approval. Former Obama official Leon
Panetta, meanwhile, has come forward to say that he
opposed the prisoner swap when he was serving as secretary of
defense.
- According to a new poll, a majority of Americans now believe
the Obama administration
to be less competent than either the George W. Bush or Bill
Clinton administrations.
- The Senate
is expected to vote shortly in confirmation of Sylvia Mathews
Burwell as the new secretary of health and human services.
- A military jet
crashed in Imperial Valley, California, destroying three
homes.
- Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo Code Talkers who
served during World War II,
has died.
- Yes, that book in the Harvard University library is
bound with human skin.
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