Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has told to a member of the House Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon has no information about a covert U.S. Special Forces ransom payment earlier this year that was made in a failed bid to win the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. In a Nov. 21 letter to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.), Hagel, however, denied the Defense Department made the ransom payment, but sidestepped questions about whether the Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC) gave cash to an Afghan intermediary who absconded with the funds earlier this year. Hagel said in the letter...
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