In a comment that now seems akin to her “what difference does it make” dismissal of the Benghazi, Libya, terror slayings of U.S. officials, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that how U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl ended up in Taliban hands “doesn’t matter.”
Clinton was interviewed last June after President Obama traded five Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl, who on Wednesday was charged with desertion.
Obama was criticized by many after the trade, with some suspecting that Bergdahl sympathized with the Taliban.
But in the interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Clinton defended Obama in comments that she may have to answer for on the campaign trail.
“If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn’t matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation,” said Clinton.
“It doesn’t matter?” Sawyer asked.
“It doesn’t matter,” Clinton said. “We bring our people home.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
