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Investigator: Bergdahl left post to expose problems in unit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/officers-stress-dangers-involved-in-search-for-bowe-bergdahl/2015/09/17/127f1a4a-5da2-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html ^ | September 18

Posted on 09/20/2015 7:02:29 PM PDT by navysealdad

The officer who led the investigation of Bowe Bergdahl’s disappearance and capture in Afghanistan six years ago testified Friday that the Army sergeant said he walked away from his post as part of a plan to spark a search and get the attention of a general so he could express his concerns about his unit’s leadership.

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To: Maris Crane

It shouldn’t matter if he left to become a priest. He left his post. There is no justification for that. You leave your post and if your intentions are good (doubtful) that’s all that you need to explain. That just ain’t right.


You summed it up better than anyone.


41 posted on 09/20/2015 9:03:40 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Hildy

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>> “The problem is, there are enough young men who know the real story.” <<

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And plenty of time to do an Arkancide...
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42 posted on 09/20/2015 9:04:32 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: navysealdad
He runs away from his unit in a GD hostile area, risking all kinds of lives, to bring attention to something? Sounds reasonable.☺
43 posted on 09/20/2015 9:06:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: laplata; Mark17

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>> “And that would knock the hell out of already sinking morale.” <<

Mission accomplished!
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44 posted on 09/20/2015 9:06:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Right! They do all they can to hurt us in any and every way, big or small.

America is dying the death of ten thousand cuts. I used to say a thousand cuts.


45 posted on 09/20/2015 9:14:49 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: navysealdad

Yes and he had a Muslim father and mother who along with Obama could/would vouch that he was an honorable traitor.


46 posted on 09/20/2015 9:19:34 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: okie01; laplata; editor-surveyor

Yes, white wash, destroying morale, all of the above. I just wonder if Nobama is smart enough to have planned this from the very beginning? I wonder if the whole thing was about getting 5 terrorists back to the battlefield, with Bergdahl as nothing more than a pawn? I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but where Nobama is concerned, I always wonder. I am so cynical of him, that I just assume everything he does, has a sinister motive.


47 posted on 09/20/2015 9:53:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: Mark17

I don’t think this was planned per se. They just took advantage of the situation. It’s a nice little side affect for them.

POS Obama is a nasty piece of work and everything he does is for the benefit of his agenda. And I mean EVERYTHING.


48 posted on 09/20/2015 9:57:21 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: navysealdad

The whistle blower defense! It just might be crazy enough to work after the White House applies adequate pressure on the Army.


49 posted on 09/20/2015 10:32:53 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: navysealdad

The officer who led the investigation (specifically assigned by the CinC).


50 posted on 09/21/2015 2:16:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: navysealdad

Been a while since I had to investigated stuff like this, but if they accept that AWOL excuse, all the time he was missing does not count as “good” time in military service. No pay is due, promotions are not allowed, etc.

If my understanding is correct, he will still owe the Army what was left on his enlistment contract before his disappearance.


51 posted on 09/21/2015 2:32:12 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Mark17

Oh, he’ll walk. At worst, he’ll be convicted on some lesser charge, then pardoned by Obama.


52 posted on 09/21/2015 4:15:18 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: laplata

Thank you.
The opposition forces you to forget the original fact.
And if you forget it, then any stupid thing can be presented. That happens a lot lately, and I hate it.


53 posted on 09/21/2015 4:51:18 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: navysealdad

No I wasn’t asleep, I was just checking to see if I had holes in my eyelids !!!


54 posted on 09/21/2015 6:11:57 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: navysealdad

Like everything else about obammy this too is bullshit.
This puke should be shot by a firing squad.
And those who are trying to whitewash these crimes ought be horse whipped in public.


55 posted on 09/21/2015 6:46:15 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: navysealdad

FLASHBACK:

http://nypost.com/2014/09/20/are-the-military-and-obama-whitewashing-bergdahls-crimes/

Is Obama whitewashing a traitor?

By Paul SperrySeptember 20, 2014

EXCERPT

The Army investigator, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, was supposed to submit his findings to brass last month but has asked for an extension. The probe was limited to a 60-day window, which ended Aug. 15. There’s no longer a deadline attached, which means the investigation could drag out past the November election.

Dahl last month interviewed Bergdahl at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, in what his lawyer described as an “entirely nonconfrontational” meeting.

Critics doubt Dahl has the skills to conduct a proper interrogation. “No general does this. They have no training,” said the Army official, who requested anonymity upon describing Dahl as a “yes-man.”


56 posted on 09/21/2015 7:04:07 AM PDT by maggief
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To: navysealdad

The biggest scandal of all is that a dirt bag like Bergdahl was in an airborne unit. Have Army standards fallen that far?


57 posted on 09/21/2015 7:07:44 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: maggief

Critics doubt Dahl has the skills to conduct a proper interrogation. “No general does this. They have no training,” said the Army official, who requested anonymity upon describing Dahl as a “yes-man.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/booming/after-30-years-in-the-army-cocktail-hour-counts.html


58 posted on 09/21/2015 7:09:47 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Mark17

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Nobama in’t smart enough to do anything.

He is run by his controllers through his ear-bud!

Other than that, you are right on the money.

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59 posted on 09/21/2015 7:32:55 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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