The second season of 'Serial' podcast debuted on Thursday morning, focusing on the disappearance of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban.
His dramatic rescue came nearly five years after he deserted, military officials said, and was part of a complex exchange that involved five Taliban prisoners who were being held at Guantanamo Bay — a move that drew sharp criticism from GOP lawmakers.
"I'm going, 'Good grief, I'm in over my head,'" Bergdahl says in the premiere episode of "Serial's" second season, recounting how he walked away from his military base in June 2009.
As Bergdahl, 29, faces a court-martial and even a life sentence in prison for leaving his base, House Republicans are claiming in a 98-page report released Wednesday that Obama administration misled Congress about the effort to release the five Gitmo detainees.
