The Road to Release

Bergdahl was swapped for five Guantánamo prisoners, now in Qatar.

The negotiations that led to the controversial release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl started three years ago, and in the beginning, it wasn't even about him. Taliban expert Michael Semple, of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Queen's University in Belfast, explains (story, link to audio version): http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-06/why-did-negotiations-free-sgt-bowe-bergdahl-take-years