With all the media chatter about the findings in the Bowe Bergdahl investigation, author, columnist and Rush Limbaugh fill-in host Mark Steyn writes that there is no way President Obama and his staff could not have known the truth about Bergdahl last year.

When others objected, the White House dispatched the National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, to tell the American people that Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction". She surely knew, as did the President, that that was a lie.

Given the background checks an ordinary law-abiding citizen requires these days merely to be permitted to be in the presence of the President, the White House must also have known that the man Obama embraced in the Rose Garden that day - Bergdahl's father - was a Taliban sympathizer.

Steyn cites extensively from his columns, written last June, including details of email exchanges between Bergdahl and his father.  He also puts a fine point on what Obama's celebration of Bergdahl's release really means.

Obama didn't just trade five high-value Taliban leaders-cum-war criminals for one American deserter, but he chose to honor that deserter as an American hero. And, in so honoring him, dishonored all the comrades he deserted.