The Taliban Five !
Posted on 12/02/2016 4:00:28 PM PST by BradtotheBone
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl--held captive for five years after being captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan--has requested a pardon from President Obama, Fox News has learned from two senior US officials.
According to a well-placed source, Bergdahl thanked the president for rescuing him in May 2014 in a controversial exchange for five Taliban prisoners from Gitmo, in addition to asking for a pardon in the letter.
The Secretary of the Army was copied on the letter to the president, but the pardon was not formally requested through the military chain of command.
A Justice Department official confirms that it received a pardonpetition from Bergdahl. Pentagon and White House officials would not immediately respond for comment.
OBAMA DEFENDS BERGDHAL TRADE DESPITE CHARGES
Bergdahl’s pardon letter was sent to the president via the Department of Justice, officials said. There was no immediate comment from DOJ.
Reached by phone, Eugene R. Fidell, the attorney representing Sgt. Bergdahl, would not comment on the letter.
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No.
WTH
The MUSLIM President, little barack, will pardon his fellow Mualim Booey......DUSGUSTING!!
Might as well give one to Hasan while he is at it.
5 cents says Obama does it and the Transgender Treasonist, too. (if I may alliterate).
The “in yo face” will give the pardon.
He had to ask?
The pardon has been in Obama’s outgoing stack since the day it was decided to charge him.
I thought he was already walking free, mute, glassy-eyed and attending some Community College by day, smoking dope and planning jihad by night.
He would be much safer in jail.
“... in a controversial exchange for five Taliban prisoners from Gitmo...”
Trump/Pence MAGA!
Ditto (No!)
The Taliban Five !
Obama won’t comment excepting to say he will consider it. Then 15 minutes before he leaves the White House on his last day, he’ll pardon the little sob. Might give Obama another crack at grabbing the kid’s mama.
If he lets him out, hopefully someone will do the right thing.
Appropriate personal request - one far left traitor to another.
Yeah, his parents & the Muslim in Chief are besties.
By the way, people are not going to believe what this clown will do in the brief time he has left in office.
Five terrorists freed for one homo. Yeah, that’s an even exchange.
While a president may pardon before conviction, such actions are and should be extremely rare. Bergdahl is in no way any kind of special case meriting a rare intervention.
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