Maybe, if the Congress stopped trying to micromanage the US Military the Congress would have the time to address some of their domestic legislation duties which they are negligent in performing.

The Commander in Chief and the Defense Secretary are responsible for military decisions.

What would have you preferred -- that we continue feed and house a few dirtballs in Gitmo that could have been traded for a GI held hostage by Jihadists? We could have left Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to rot in Afghanistan -- would that have been preferable?

Gitmo is a long standing political failure. A good number of the Jihadists or Terrorists in Gitmo are political prisoners of war if there is such a designation. There is an international precedent of releasing these sort of prisoners for soldiers held captive as hostages. The terrorists want their "hostages" we hold at Gitmo back too. The Gitmo detainees are little better than baseball cards to be traded -- after years the Gitmo detainees are dead meat -- they will always be suspect of being brainwashed under years of prison camp detainment in outdoor cellblocks made of fenced in "cages' by the Americans. So George and Dick you can claim "Mission Accomplished" one that one I guess.

We could do the unthinkable and have mass executions without trial, summary executions, at Gitmo. Then there would be no exchanges to be made like this -- would you prefer this?

Congress should grow up and STFU up already -- this exchange is far from a treasonable action and a decision made under difficult circumstances.