another, leading to the goldwater-nichols act, and transformation on that scale literally takes an act of congress. get the hostages home, my team worked three lines of effort to develop the viable trade and get the taliban back to the negotiating table. my team was equipped to do the two first tasks, and recovering sergeant bergdahl was a critical step to carrying out our commander in chief's objective to ending the longest war in history. i went to congress to repair a dysfunctional bureaucracy to support our president. it caused the army to place me under criminal investigation. i spoke to representative duncan hunter because he is a member of the house armed services committee, and i needed him to buttress our efforts with two simple messages, the hostage