WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Armed Services Committee will investigate the Obama administration's swap of an American prisoner held for five years for five Taliban leaders which caused a political firestorm over the lack of congressional notification and fears the high-level Taliban could return to the Afghanistan battlefield.

"We ought to look at the price," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the panel, told reporters after administration officials held a tense 90-minute, closed-door briefing.

Officials from the White House, State and Defense departments and the intelligence community defended the exchange of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a Hailey, Idaho, man who was captured in June 2009 in Afghanistan after he disappeared from his infantry unit, for five Taliban militants from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In the week since the deal, lawmakers have questioned whether Bergdahl was a deserter and whether the U.S. gave up too much for his freedom.