The Obama administration misled Congress over negotiations to swap five Taliban leaders for Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, Congressional Republicans have claimed in a new report.

The report slams the White House for not providing Congress a legally-mandated 30-day notice ahead of any detainee release, among other claims.

Democrats issued a rebuttal to some of the report’s concerns and accusations.

Mr. Bergdahl was released in May 2014, after nearly five years in captivity.

On Thursday, the popular podcast Serial launched its second series, which focuses on Mr. Bergdahl’s story and includes recordings of his first public telling of his experience.

In the interviews, conducted by filmmaker Mark Boal and excerpted in the podcast, he claims that he left his base to create a crisis and highlight poor leadership within his unit.

“What I was seeing, from my first unit all the way up into Afghanistan, all I was seeing was, basically, leadership failure, to the point that the lives of the guys standing next to me were, literally, from what I could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong and somebody being killed,” he said.

Read the article “Bergdahl Talks Publicly for the First Time, Says He Wanted to be Like Jason Bourne” on bbc.com.