Posted on 06/05/2014 5:43:47 AM PDT by don-o
One of the most striking elements of the Bowe Bergdahl affair is word that top Army officers were so anxious to keep the matter a secret that they directed Bergdahl's fellow soldiers to sign a pledge of silence about his 2009 decision to walk away from duty in Afghanistan. "Many of Bergdahl's fellow troops…signed nondisclosure agreements agreeing to never share any information about Bergdahl's disappearance and the efforts to recapture him," wrote CNN's Jake Tapper, who first reported the agreements last Sunday.
Now, with Bergdahl back in U.S. hands, many of those former soldiers are ignoring the agreement they signed. They feel strongly that they must give their first-hand accounts of Bergdahl's acts so the public will see him as the deserter they believe he is, and not as a hero.
In a conversation Wednesday afternoon, Josh Cornelison, who was the medic in Bergdahl's platoon, described how -- in the middle of an intense search for Bergdahl -- the Army brass approached his harried colleagues with the nondisclosure agreement.
"Once Bergdahl left, we were very busy for the following two and a half months chasing him around," Cornelison recalled. "We were driving around for 20 hours a day. We would get some sort of intel report, and we would have to go to that spot, and if it were a four hour drive, we would do that. When we got back to FOB [Forward Operating Base] Sharana, we were on very limited time frames. We would pull in, and we would have 90 minutes. So you wanted to take a shower, get hot food, go to the PX."
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Our soldiers bravery continues.
But Susan Rice said he served honorably and was captured on the battlefield. Who you gonna believe? Duh.
I obviously don't know what's in these "agreements," but from what I've read there's no indication that the soldiers got any agreed-upon benefit from signing them.
If that's true, and the soldiers received no kind of consideration in exchange for signing, then (as any first-year law student knows), the "agreements" are meaningless and unenforceable.
I heard yesterday that Wikileaks has alot of information the Obama regime tried to hide related to this subject.
If those officials actually classified that information, it has to have a review or expiration date. It further has to cite the classifying authority, under which guidelines it is classified, and who classified it and when.
These soldiers should also have been a copy of the agreements. If they were grandfathered in under a prior NDA about classified information, I’d say it was a pretty bogus way to make them stay quiet. If the information was not classified, then I’d tell them to take a hike.
DoD would be really, REALLY stupid to go after these soldiers and vets for telling the truth about Bergdahl.
So we have a Taliban/Muslim sympathizer as president negotiating with the Taliban to release 5 Taliban leaders in exchange for another Taliban/Muslim sympathizer that collaborated with the Taliban,
and we’re to applaud Obama for this victory of diplomacy?
If BB was such a dedicated patriotic soldier one wonders why a vow of secrecy was needed from those who had first hand knowledge of his noble character...
Yes... AND we must smear anyone who tries to stand in the way of this narrative, including soldiers who did not desert, families of soldiers killed looking for Bergdahl, and anyone with any actual knowledge of the situation. It’s what this administration does.
Well put!
If that’s true, and the soldiers received no kind of consideration in exchange for signing, then (as any first-year law student knows), the “agreements” are meaningless and unenforceable.
The military does not give any kind of consideration for signing a directive. I have signed millions over the years and didn’t get anything out of it except to ensure that I followed whatever the directive said. The only thing that would be interesting is getting our hands on the document to see if he was to not talk about anything they saw for life or just during that mission.
If they were ordered or coerced into signing, the it’s not an “agreement”.
Were these NDAs signed under duress? What happened to any who did not sign or needed to be convinced further to sign? What NSA type research is now being conducted against all who speak out?
Two points on this sentence. One, if you are asking for nondisclosure agreements you MUST be hiding something. Two, this is what happens when lawyers get involved. Waaaait a minute, aren't most congress critters lawyers? I knew it, lawyers are miles below pond scum and all they do is muck sh!t up.
That is a good thing. A hot and a cot will keep you going while sleeping in a muddy hole, eating cold rations causes fatigue and health problems. Blisters, cuts and scrapes turn into hospitalization. Productivity plummets. Constination turns into impacted bowel.
Hot and a cot. That’s a good thing if you can do it.
Making sure we’re all clear who “they” are: the politicians and perfumed princes of the Pentagon who create impossible Rules of Engagement, not the troops in the field. As a VN 0811, I bet you knew that and I just wanted others to get that info explicitly. With all due respect, of course...
DoD would, yes. DoJ is another matter. I wouldn't put anything past Holder. He would make these guys suffer for dissing his buddy in the oval office..............
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