Clinton disagreed with Obama on Syria

Potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton writes in her new book that she raised concerns about a swap of Taliban prisoners when she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state and disagreed with his decision not to arm Syrian rebels.

CBS News said it obtained a copy of her forthcoming memoir, Hard Choices, before its planned publication on Tuesday. Clinton is widely considered the Democratic front-runner if she enters the 2016 White House race.

With controversy swirling over Obama’s move to swap five Taliban militants held at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for captive US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the book discloses that a much earlier discussion about him took place among top foreign policy advisers, including Clinton.