So you think that Obama doesn't have to follow the law and notify Congress beforehand or that there should be some mechanism that ensures that there is some oversight as to which prisoners are released?
We really don't know yet if Obama did the right thing. What happens if the Taliban take some more US hostages from the Embassy for example and demand more releases of prisoners? What would be your reaction of the five who are released get involved again in terrorism and take more American and Afghan lives? It will be months or years before we can ascertain if Obama did the right thing.
America will always be a target for terrorism. Nothing will change that, ever. We tell our armed forces to never fear. We’ll bring you home. You’d leave a soldier behind, because what might happen in the future? Or because of conceived political wrongs or outright stupidity?