U.S. Senators Are Furious After Being Told That They Would Have Leaked The Bergdahl Deal

Senator Furious That Obama Claims Lawmakers Would Have Leaked Bergdahl Deal – When They Were Trusted For 'Months And Months' With Plans About Killing bin Laden -- Daily Mail

* Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss said he didn't believe the Obama administration's claim that fear of a leak prompted them to finalize the release of five terrorists from Guantanamo Bay without telling Congress
* Chambliss said he and Senate Intelligence Committee chair Dianne Feinstein 'knew about ... the takedown of [Osama] bin Laden for months and months and months'
* Nothing about the bin Laden kill raid was made public until President Obama announced at the White House that the al-Qaeda leader was dead
* Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken told senators on Wednesday that the Taliban threatened to execute Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if any news leaked about hostage-swap negotiations
* That explanation, he said, justified ignoring a law that requires the White House to tell Congress 30 days before releasing anyone from Gitmo

Obama administration officials told a gathering of all 100 U.S. Senators on Wednesday that they were kept in the dark about Saturday's prisoner swap because the Taliban warned that they would kill Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if any information about the plan leaked to the public.

But Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the senior Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, his Democratic counterpart on the committee, were told 'months and months' in advance when the Obama administration was planning to kill Osama bin Laden.

'It was like they didn't trust Dianne and me,' Chambliss said during an interview on the Fox News Channel, describing his frustration with being kept out of the loop on the Bergdahl hostage swap.

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My Comment: Unlike the briefings on Osama bin Laden where everyone wanted to get him (dead or alive) .... the White House knew from previous discussions that a good number of these senators were against any swap of Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl. With such opposition .... I can understand why they were fearful of a leak .... but was it right to do what they did? .... that debate is still ongoing.