House panel to investigate prisoner swap

Published June 10, 2014 1:59am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Armed Services Committee will investigate the Obama administration’s swap of an American prisoner held for five years for five Taliban leaders that caused a political firestorm over the lack of congressional notification and fears the high-level Taliban could return to the Afghanistan battlefield.

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