Yesterday, The Daily Caller posted an interview that Ginni Thomas conducted with the Family Research Council’s Jerry Boykin in which he called for President Obama to be impeached over the Veterans Affairs scandal and Benghazi while wondering why captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was not killed by the US government like Anwar al-Awlaki had been.
As Boykin sees it, the trade of five Taliban leaders in exchange for Bergdahl’s return was “so phony” because Bergdahl was a known deserter who was no different than al-Awlaki.
“Al-Awlaki was an American citizen,” Boykin said. “He was assassinated by the Obama administration because he was a traitor, he had turned on America. I’m glad he’s dead. I have no issue with that. But what’s the different between al-Awlaki and Bowe Bergdahl?”
Saying that Bergdahl had already been found guilty of desertion by the military, for which the punishment is death, Boykin declared that “there’s no logic” to the swap “except that this was all about closing Guantanamo and they had to have the sequence of events unfold the way they did so they could release these five people out of Guantanamo”:
