Is Your Head Spinning?

It will be.

“This is a complete change of our national security strategy of not negotiating with terrorists,” Republican Representative Mike Rogers told ABC News at the time of [apparent deserter Bowe] Bergdahl’s release. “I think it sends a terrible national security message – not just to Afghanistan, but to the rest of the world.”

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Responding to a question posed by ABC’s chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, deputy press secretary Eric Schultz argued the US can swap prisoners with the Taliban because the group is not a terrorist organization but “an armed insurgency.”

  RT

They sure were a terrorist organization when we had to go take freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people.

And isn't this handy....

The US government maintains two separate lists of terrorist organizations. One is maintained by the State Department while the Treasury Department has its own list, created by a Bush-era executive order, which is responsible for economic sanctions on entities and individuals with alleged ties to terrorism.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.