Not quite sure what the rigamarole here is. Maybe I have missed something. If people want to give Obama flak for the decision.. well... OK. Question his judgement all you want, I do almost every time I read about something he has done.

As for prisoner exchange... normally it shouldnt be such a big deal, at least from a legal standpoint. Congress shouldnt be needed.

However, the US Govt (Bush and Obama admins thus far) has done so much legal tapdancing and sophistry to somehow justify holding people without trial and without Geneva Convention POW rights that I will LMAO if it comes back to bite them because one of the sophistries employed comes back to haunt them somehow.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)