Originally Posted by Vendzilla

They had been working on this for a while, Obama just didn't want to deal with Congress as usual.

So he used an executive order to bypass them, just like he promised he would be doing during his state of the union address.

He's going to use this as a precedent to empty gitmo I bet, so do others.

Wait for new kidnappings to happen for leverage for more releases.



Here's what I would have done, wait for one of them to need surgery for something, put an implant in him with a homing signal device and then, after the trade, hit that target with a drone after they got back home