Posted on 11/04/2017 12:18:44 PM PDT by Godebert
The lead defense attorney for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said he wants him to receive the Prisoner of War medal.
His civilian lawyer, Eugene Fidell, on Friday said his client should be recognized for the five years he spent in Taliban captivity after deserting his post in Afghanistan, according to an article by USA Today.
"We have long felt he was entitled to the POW medal," Fidell said, the newspaper reported.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Bergdahl's defense team plans to push for the award as part of the process to appeal his dishonorable discharge.
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I believe only the defense can make an appeal. They probably will argue for elimination of the fine, restoration to sergeant with a promotion to E-6, and change the dishonorable discharge to honorable. The crazy part is that the Army promoted this scumbag to sergeant AFTER he deserted.
Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.
Since 1981, she has authored over 2,800 articles for The New York Times. She has been a regular guest on the PBS program Washington Week.
Greenhouse was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1998 “for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.”
Greenhouse has expressed her personal views as an outspoken advocate for abortion rights and critic of conservative religious values,
New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent said that he has never received a single complaint of bias in Greenhouse’s coverage.
On August 9, 2007, a television crew from C-SPAN was forbidden to film a panel discussion at a meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Greenhouse had told organizers that she would not be able answer questions as fully and frankly if the session were filmed.
Ed Whelan, writing in a blog associated with National Review, suggested that Greenhouse had an obligation to her readers to inform them when reporting on a Supreme Court case that her husband Eugene Fidell had submitted an amicus brief: He had submitted an amicus brief in the Hamdan case. Fidell also submitted an amicus brief in the Boumediene case when it was at the D.C. Circuit level before it went to the Supreme Court. Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times at the time, opined that the paper “should have clued in readers” to Greenhouse’s conflict, but defended the neutrality of her coverage.
Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick, writing in Slate magazine, complained that the New York Times “had failed to stand up” for Greenhouse and defended Greenhouse from Whelan’s criticism.
I don’t see Mrs. Bill Clinton and the usurper Obama in that montage of commies.
YUP!
Can the Military do something to the Judge? Demote him, ask for his retirement? After all he blamed the Commander in Chief when he blamed Trump for talking bad about Bergpoop.
Bravo Sierra!
As, usual thanks for the info.
It’s only awarded for honorable serve!
Have him reassigned to Afghanistan. Watch him like a hawk and if he even makes the slightest mistake drop the hammer on his ass.
Nope. At least Arnold was a hero before he became a traitor...
This bergdahl scumbag was a budding traitor before he blossomed into a full-time traitor.
The nice thing is that Bergdahl is going to looking behind him for the rest of his pathetic life.
I suspect he won’t be worrying about it for long
That is probably right.
Right above his oratory hole where the crap comes out.
See, now you are guessing which hole....
Maybe when he left camp he was carrying an off-the-books investment proposal from the Clintons to the Haqqani Network.
If Arnold had died from the wound he received at Saratoga, he would be one of the nation’s heroes. But after his treason he did more harm to the American cause while fighting on the British side than Bergdahl did in our time—he would be completely unknown if not for Obama using him in order to release five of the top terrorists.
72 years ago he would have replaced Eddie Slovik..........
Yeah, cast that medal into a bullet and put it in his ear-hole at 900 ft/sec.
Who would/could reassign him?
Only if it is modified to have a railroad spike instead of the usual frog pin setup - and those who were stationed with him get to “pin it on” to the center of his chest with a sledge.....and it reads “POS” instead of “POW”...
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