Of course Obama, Hagel, and Rice are saying that they did not negotiate with terrorists. Their statement is that the government of Qatar did the negotiations. BIG F***ing DEAL!
It is still negotiations to trade five senior Taliban commanders for a f***ing traitor. Every U.S. veteran needs to join a rally and march on Washington until this piece of sh*t is brought up on charges of treason and tried and hung.
If they say they did not, that means they did.