BERGDAHL FALLOUT: Terrorist Swap Raised In Tight Blue-State Midterm Race. “President Obama’s decision to swap five high-level Taliban detainees for a U.S. soldier who wandered off five years ago has emerged as an issue in the race to unseat U.S. Rep. John Tierney, and is dividing members of the state’s congressional delegation. . . . President Obama’s decision to swap five high-level Taliban detainees for a U.S. soldier who wandered off five years ago has emerged as an issue in the race to unseat U.S. Rep. John Tierney, and is dividing members of the state’s congressional delegation.”