Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returned to U.S., (Twitpic/Democracynow)

While the Bergdahl swap has been stirring up controversy— including calls from Judge Andrew Napolitano for President Obama’s impeachment —a government official revealed to USA TODAY that videos showing Bergdahl's declining health influenced the U.S.’s decision to make the exchange.  

But even many Democrats do not agree with the exchange. 

"I am concerned about what was given in exchange and I am concerned about what precedents we set here for exchanges," said Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman. "I don't want the message to be, 'You can go ahead and capture Americans and use them to barter for others.'"

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, on the other hand, described the release of the five Taliban officials from Guantanamo as a source of "great happiness and joy."

In response to such backlash, Obama declared, “This is what happens at the end of wars."

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