More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In an exclusive interview with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled the Pentagon chief on the Bowe Bergdahl exchange: "Do you think that the White House made a mistake in wrapping its arms around Bowe Bergdahl and saying, for example, that he served with honor and distinction, when the administration knew there were at least questions about the circumstances of him walking off the base?"
Carter tried to downplay what the administration knew ahead of time: "I don't think that anybody at that time fully knew the circumstances." Guthrie pushed back: "But wouldn't they know from debriefing other soldiers, at a minimum, that he had expressed reservations about his service, that he had walked away?"