Morning Notes

++Senators Sessions and Graham want to know what Hillary knows about the release of Sgt.Bergdahl. After all she had lunch with President Obama this past week.

++Hillary did come out and defended the swap.

++Dick Cheney thought a staff shouldn't let President Obama get so exposed. He won't have done the deal. But he did in releasing Al Qaeda members to Yemen. We call them Cheney's Raiders.

++GOP strategists have been arranging interviews with Bergdahl's platoon. Thanks to the New York Times for letting us who was behind these series of stories.

++Jeffrey Toobin says President Obama broke the law with the exchange. 

++The Imperial Post asks whether the price was too high.

++Lindsey Graham is going to hold hearings on the release.

++Senators McCain and Chambliss had been briefed on the prisoner swap in February.

++President Obama had made a signing statement on the bill that held his hands on releases from Gitmo. Both Reagan and W liked signing statements.

++General Martin Dempsey defended the Bergdahl move and said that the US brings back their own whoever they are and that complaints about his behavior will be dealt with.

++The Pentagon will look into whether anyone was killed looking for him as one Platoon leader claimed.

++The always charming John Sunnunu says that concerns over Bergdahl's health are like Obama's explanation for Benghazi.

++Marc Thiessen reminded us that it was the big bad Taliban who were released. 

++Columnists reminded us that Bibi Netanyahu exchanged 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for 1 Israeli soldier and President Reagan swapped 1,500 rockets for hostages.

++Fred Kaplan at Slate says that the release of the five Taliban commanders may lead to larger peace talks in Afghanistan.

++One note. The five Taliban commanders have been in GITMO for ten years and have been tortured. They will be kept in Qatar for a year. Presumably we will have ended the war in Afghanistan by that time.