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Bergdahl to be charged with desertion, officials say
Fox News.com ^ | March 25, 2015

Posted on 03/25/2015 12:35:15 PM PDT by Kaslin

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was taken captive by the Taliban after abandoning his post in Afghanistan and freed five years later in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees, will be charged with desertion, officials told Fox News.

The development comes nearly one year after his May 2014 release -- which initially was a joyous occasion, with his family joining President Obama in celebrating the news in the Rose Garden. But that gave way to controversy in Washington as Bergdahl was accused of putting his fellow soldiers in danger by abandoning his post five years earlier. The trade of five hardened Taliban fighters for his freedom raised deep concerns on Capitol Hill that the administration struck an unbalanced deal.

The military plans to address the case at a press conference Wednesday afternoon at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 4; bowebergdahl; braking; executehim; traitor; treason
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1 posted on 03/25/2015 12:35:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 03/25/2015 12:40:28 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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What are the odds of the Military members involved in this decision having their Names and addresses posted on an ISIS hit list?


3 posted on 03/25/2015 12:40:54 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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Bring out the firing squad.


4 posted on 03/25/2015 12:43:05 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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Look out for a Hillary email dump today.


5 posted on 03/25/2015 12:44:20 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I am guessing Hillary needs volunteers for 2016.


6 posted on 03/25/2015 12:44:28 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Kaslin

Report: Bowe Bergdahl to be tried for desertion, misbehavior before the enemy; Update: Honorable discharge?
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/25/report-bowe-bergdahl-to-be-tried-for-desertion-misbehavior-in-front-of-the-enemy/


7 posted on 03/25/2015 12:46:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Kaslin

What is the story with his father? His father looked like a white Taliban. This country has gotten more and more peculiar.


8 posted on 03/25/2015 12:46:36 PM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: Kaslin

They keep saying that.


9 posted on 03/25/2015 12:52:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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From the F/R locked thread (have to wonder why it was locked) "And Obama released 5 KILLER TERRORISTS and BILLIONS of DOLLARS for this CRUD DESERTER!!!!"

and they were released into Yemen because they could be monitored. Really, Look at Yemen now.

10 posted on 03/25/2015 1:03:41 PM PDT by thegrump (It is who we are. It is what we do. Live for nothing or die for something !)
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What is the story with his father? His father looked like a white Taliban. This country has gotten more and more peculiar.

Looks like goat boy from an old SNL skit.
11 posted on 03/25/2015 1:05:51 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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This the same administration that’s making a deal with Iran over its pursuit of nuclear weapons. How can we trust Obama on nuclear weapons and Iran when he couldn’t get this one right?


12 posted on 03/25/2015 1:09:21 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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Not to worry! Party Secretary give Bergdahl presidential pardon!


13 posted on 03/25/2015 1:09:46 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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President Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, said on ABC that Bowe Bergdahl "served the United States with honor and distinction" and that "Sergeant Bergdahl wasn't simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield." ...June 2014

Ahahahahahahahahahhaha.. Susan 'Liece'

14 posted on 03/25/2015 1:11:31 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Zeneta

Or an Obama hit list.


15 posted on 03/25/2015 1:12:02 PM PDT by Happy1947
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To: olepap

It’s getting hard to breath, holding my nose like this.


16 posted on 03/25/2015 1:15:27 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Happy1947

Or an Obama hit list.


Is there a difference?


17 posted on 03/25/2015 1:16:42 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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What is the story with his father?

He is wacky and at times speaks Pashto and Arabic. Says he learned it to facilitate freeing his son but I doubt that’s the reason.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 1:19:56 PM PDT by Stephanie32
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To: Zeneta

Probably not. Anything not specifically approved by him is on a hit list. Even the flower lady isn’t immune to the Obama’s.


19 posted on 03/25/2015 1:40:05 PM PDT by Happy1947
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Hillary Clinton response to Dianne Sawyer (today):

Sawyer: Did he (Obama) make a deal with the devil, on releasing those five Taliban
Clinton: I think this was a very hard choice, which is why I think my book is so aptly named...competing interests and values...it doesn’t matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation
Sawyer (clearly puzzled): It doesn’t matter???
Clinton: It doesn’t matter...

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/25/report-bowe-bergdahl-to-be-tried-for-desertion-misbehavior-in-front-of-the-enemy/


20 posted on 03/25/2015 1:46:15 PM PDT by kidd
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