Posted on 06/09/2014 7:47:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Since his release nine days ago, many have been wondering why Bowe Bergdahl has been so quiet! Latest reports say he hasn’t even spoken with his parents since being handed over by the Taliban!
Well, according to one caller allegedly familiar with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Bergdahl’s silence is due to the fact that he has already been put under arrest!
On Monday’s show, “Richard from Saginaw”, called in and told Tom he understands that Bergdahl is expected to be charged with 11 counts — all related to his mysterious 2009 disappearance.
Richard said he worked with the JAG office for eight years before recently retiring and his “sources” claim Bergdahl will likely face desertion charges. If found guilty, Richard says Bergdahl could face 20 years in prison!(continued)
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People lawyer up over slip and fall incidents; hot coffee at McD resulted in a lengthy lawsuit. Here we are talking about a man who is publicly accused of desertion, of aid to the enemy, and of causing death of other soldiers who were sent to look for him. If he is not entirely brain dead (a good possibility in his case,) he or his family would get a lawyer before he even steps on US soil.
I have a question for some of the experts out there. I am wondering who will be the first JAG officer to draw up charges against the man, his/her Commander-in-Chief and his subordinates have already referred to as “Honorable and Brave”.
I’m thinking that when Bergdahl gets released from the hospital in Germany, he’ll be heading to a PCF to cut grass. Somebody has to take him until they decide what to do with him. They’ll have to see whether he wants to stay in the Army or get out. It’s going to be a mess and whoever gets stuck with him is in for some long days.
I didn’t cut grass as an E-5 or E-6 (or even as a senior E-4), I supervised people cutting grass. Has the Army changed?
In Ford’s case, he basically rewrote the rules of pardoning...because of the massive danger of bringing Nixon into court, and turning the American political atmosphere into a toxic-dump for decades to come. The Republicans upon seeing the treatment of Nixon in court...would have carved up politics and made every Democratic Senator into a threat to national security.
Beyond Ford, show me any pardon over the past couple of decades that didn’t involve a conviction already.
I would admit....it’d be simpler to just order the Army not to prosecute Bergdahl, or to write up one or two charges which equal time already served in the holding action.
I’d strongly suggest that Bergdahl is a nutcase....and was likely a nutcase as a teenager, and the Army should have grasped that early on and put the guy out. Maybe the nutcase clause will be used and he avoids all potential jail because he’s a nut.
Remember, Ford pardoned Nixon before Nixon was even charged with anything. So I guess preemptive pardons are possible.
Bull...
I just don’t remember. There is a cadre of Soldiers at a PCF. They are in charge. The people in the PCF are classified as “Casuals”. There is no Casual chain of command. A PCF isn’t a stockade and it isn’t a line unit. I understand what you write about NCOs supervising, but I just don’t remember if that held true at a PCF. Regardless, he’d go out with the grass cutting detail.
Yes. “Cutting grass” means something different now. And the one you’re thinking of is now done by civilian contractors who hire illegal Mexicans instead of Pvt. Joe Shit the Rag Man.
Rich is an interesting episode. He accomplished various tax fraud situations...got discovered...case went forward...his company pleads guilt and pays a huge fine....but they wanted Rich himself to do time (way more than twenty years).
Rich left the country, and then did a lot of support for the government of Israel. Some suggest that he helped the Mossad folks and helped to bring in oil. The odd thing here is that after he got the pardon...he still didn’t return to the US, and quietly lives out his life in Europe today. The value of the pardon? I’m not sure its worth anything.
He might want to avoid Fort Marcy Park.
Sadly, Marc's no longer coming down for breakfast.
According to the Wikipedia,
Rich died of a stroke on June 26, 2013, at a Lucerne hospital. He was 78 and is survived by two daughters, Ilona Schachter-Rich and Danielle Kilstock Rich. He was buried in Israel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/business/marc-rich-pardoned-financier-dies-at-78.html
Oh PLEASE!! He will NEVER get what he deserves, Obama will see to that.
You can’t be pardoned from yourself, he knows what he did and it will never go away. I was in the A Shau 1970 to 1971 and Lord knows I would have liked to walk away but it’s just something you don’t do, there was only two Honorable ways out.
Allow me to second your statement. Sounds like a load of crap to me too. Whether it's someone talking out his butt or an attempt to make the Obama administration look less inept over this is what I'm not sure of.
I wager that before Bergdahl comes to any trial or even Article 32 investigation, he dies of some strange illness known only in Afghanistan. The President can’t afford to have truth revealed.
I’m betting his case gets expedited to get him out of the news cycle. I doubt that court martial proceedings will ever materialize. Article 32 recommendation for a Field Grade Article 15, with max punishments applied, then probably suspend those until he can be honorably discharged posthaste.
I live near Missouri, so “show me”, too!
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