A House Armed Services Committee member asked the Pentagon’s inspector general on Monday to conduct a formal investigation into reports that the Pentagon paid a large ransom in a failed bid to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from terrorist custody. “The IG has an obligation to investigate this matter even more so now that the Defense Department is trying to sidestep the whole situation,”   Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) told the Free Beacon . “Either we didn’t pay, and don’t pay, which is the official Defense Department line, or we did pay, as others within the Defense Department...
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