A.M. Links: Bergdahl Fallout Grows, Republicans Warn of Impeachment, Obama Deemed Less Competent

  • 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
    .

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