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Bergdahl Walked Away Before, Military Report Says
New York Times ^ | 06/05/2014 | By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC SCHMITT

Posted on 06/05/2014 10:22:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

WASHINGTON — A classified military report detailing the Army’s investigation into the disappearance of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in June 2009 says that he had wandered away from assigned areas before — both at a training range in California and at his remote outpost in Afghanistan — and then returned, according to people briefed on it.

The roughly 35-page report, completed two months after Sergeant Bergdahl left his unit, concludes that he most likely walked away of his own free will from his outpost in the darkness of night, and it criticized lax security practices and poor discipline within his unit. But it stops short of concluding that there is solid evidence that Sergeant Bergdahl intended to permanently desert.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bergdahl
My guess is that Obama will personally hand over Bergdah's promotion orders and then we'll all watch him desert once again back to Afghanistan.
1 posted on 06/05/2014 10:22:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
But it stops short of concluding that there is solid evidence that Sergeant Bergdahl intended to permanently desert.

Once, twice, three times a deserter...................

2 posted on 06/05/2014 10:24:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Headline of the Day Poll
Why did Obama trade 5 terrorist leaders for deserter Bowe Bergdahl?

Because Bergdahl is an American hero.
I don’t know.
To distract from his VA death panel fiasco.

Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz33mq4UmSg


3 posted on 06/05/2014 10:25:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

With honor and distinction, no doubt.


4 posted on 06/05/2014 10:26:02 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Walked away...how long?? A day? A week?


5 posted on 06/05/2014 10:26:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Responsibility2nd

This guy should have been DD’ed long ago, as Hasan should have.


6 posted on 06/05/2014 10:31:28 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Soon, "the grateful dead" will be more than just the name of a crap band...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
But it stops short of concluding that there is solid evidence that Sergeant Bergdahl intended to permanently desert.

Told his fellow soldiers. Wrote a note. Sent his personal effects home. Asked which way to the Taliban. Nothing solid there.

7 posted on 06/05/2014 10:32:27 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck
Told his fellow soldiers. Wrote a note. Sent his personal effects home. Asked which way to the Taliban. Nothing solid there.

Good example of obamathink.

8 posted on 06/05/2014 10:44:33 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This article makes its claims based on interviews with people who had been briefed on what was in this report, but the claims of those people contradict each other. For instance, one guy said the report mentioned a letter that Bergdahl left behind, but other sources are saying there was no letter.

This lays out a scenario where what is actually in this report can be changed to fit whatever narrative Obama’s handlers settle on - as long as the report is secret and the regime can place people to make the preferred claims to complicit media.

As I mentioned in another thread, Joe Arpaio has said that the regime has figured out how to change the internal properties of documents so that brand-new fabricated documents can have a creation date chosen by the regime. If this is true, then they can create today (or next week, or whenever they’ve got the fabricated claims disseminated through complicit actors) a document that says exactly what they want it to say - for instance, that Bergdahl was constantly running off, and his unit was “dysfunctional” (as Nancy Pelosi’s daughter is claiming in tweets) for ignoring him running off all the time.... that there was no note.... etc - and have it show a creation date of August of 2009. It will look for all the world as if that’s what the report actually said in August of 2009, and the real report can be buried forever.

IOW, they are capable of rewriting the records from 2009 contradicting the reports of the military men coming forward now. They also have the ability to create records showing that these military guys were considered potential psychopaths (as the HUD guy claimed).

As long as we allow the crooks to remain in positions of power to be able to do this fabrication of records, they WILL make liars out of the honest military people who have come forward. It’s what this regime does.

IOW, nothing is impossible to them. If they want these fine soldiers to be labeled as psychopaths, they can create records throughout their entire military careers showing their psychopathic tendencies. If they want the classified August 2009 report to say that Bergdahl’s unit was doing all kinds of criminal or disturbing behavior, they can come up with documents from 2009 and before, showing precisely that. They have the ability to totally falsify history.

And as long as we allow them to do that - as long as Lois Lerner and Eric Holder (as well as the people that Arpaio knows forged Obama’s long-form BC and other records...) are already found guilty of contempt of Congress and yet nobody has the balls to force them to face consequences (jail time) - then NONE of the government records can be trusted. They can falsify whatever they want, and honest people - like these honest soldiers - will be the casualties. KILLED BY A CONGRESS THAT CARES NOTHING FOR TRUTH OR THE RULE OF LAW.

Until Congress gets serious about the rule of law and the critical nature of true, unfalsified records, we can’t trust a word out of ANYBODY in DC. That’s how serious this is.

We NEED to make Congress know we consider them accountable. As long as they are fine with falsified records, lies under oath, and hiding records.... they are responsible for the casualties America faces, including the nation itself.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ARREST LERNER AND HOLDER FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, AND MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT IT IS BECAUSE THE TRUTH MATTERS ON ALL THESE INSTANCES OF LAWLESSNESS BY THE REGIME. WAY TOO MUCH IS AT STAKE, AND THE CROOKS WHO LIE TO COVER UP CRIMES WILL FACE JUSTICE. Preferably in Gitmo.


9 posted on 06/05/2014 10:47:31 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oh good, a serial deserter. Obama’s kind of soldier.


10 posted on 06/05/2014 10:51:55 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Starstruck

Also emails to his parent(s), reprinted in Rolling Stone article. Strangely enough, neither he nor his family nor RS has backtracked from those emails.


11 posted on 06/05/2014 10:57:39 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Also emails to his parent(s), reprinted in Rolling Stone article. Strangely enough, neither he nor his family nor RS has backtracked from those emails

Right forgot those. Nice catch.

12 posted on 06/05/2014 11:05:42 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: butterdezillion

Hi butter. Great comments as usual. Nice to see you’re here.


13 posted on 06/05/2014 11:08:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Red Badger

The real investigation should be into the reason the military did not immediately remove Bergdahl from a combad zone the first time he deserted er walked away.


14 posted on 06/05/2014 11:09:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thanks. America is worth fighting for, wherever, whenever, and however we can.


15 posted on 06/05/2014 11:37:02 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: butterdezillion

What are you talking about? We have always been at war with East Asia.


16 posted on 06/06/2014 5:41:26 AM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: PghBaldy

The RS article was from 2012, right? How does the timing of that article fit in with the McChrystal and Petraeus issues, and Hastings’ death shortly after he had something big on John Brennan?


17 posted on 06/06/2014 7:05:21 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: butterdezillion

I don’t know. Sorry. With this group in DC, it is hard to know anything, they lie about so much, even stuff they don’t need to lie about.


18 posted on 06/09/2014 7:32:38 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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