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AP Explains: Bergdahl judge weighed complex leniency factors
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 11/4/17 | The Associated Press

Posted on 11/05/2017 1:37:05 AM PST by Godebert

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To: Godebert

The judge was appointed for this case during the Obama Administration. I do believe that has a pre-determining factor here. The Obama Administration has a long history of putting its thumbs on the scales of justice!


41 posted on 11/05/2017 3:56:28 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: a little elbow grease
This guy looks like a perv........

He's got a wedding ring, but he must be married to a man. The picture in post #7 is creepy.

42 posted on 11/05/2017 4:12:05 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: Godebert

Anyone know if his sentence can be appealed, as too lenient? You know, by the good guys upstairs in the chain?


43 posted on 11/05/2017 4:34:22 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Drone Soros and sons!!!)
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To: Godebert
Complex? Whatever happened to “we caught them,and we shot them under Rule .303” ( a classic line from Breaker Morant,a truly classic film.)
44 posted on 11/05/2017 4:38:38 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: 867V309

It’s like situational ethics: “trust us on this because you’re too dumb to understand.”


45 posted on 11/05/2017 4:44:18 AM PST by Spok
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To: Cowboy Bob

I didn’t know military judges could change a sentence that was written into military law. Everyone, I mean, everyone knows the punishment for desertion!


46 posted on 11/05/2017 4:47:40 AM PST by jch10 (I STAND FOR MY COUNTRY, MY FLAG, AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.)
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To: Godebert

Should have been hanged.

5.56mm


47 posted on 11/05/2017 4:47:50 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Gay State Conservative
Great Movie! Rule .303
48 posted on 11/05/2017 4:49:41 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: SkyPilot

No setencing minimums/guidlines in the military?


49 posted on 11/05/2017 5:07:19 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Godebert

Let’s not forget that senator McShame got off too - that communist collaborating, plane wrecking, reckless murdering SOB.


50 posted on 11/05/2017 5:11:27 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Godebert

The cartoon is from Pakistan. It seems as their judiciary is corrupt . Corrupt judges, a common maladay the world over.

51 posted on 11/05/2017 5:12:51 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Godebert

The judge and the AP chose to ignore the “brutal” deaths of 6 soldiers or the “brutal” injuries of the Master Sergeant who can not walk, talk or take care of himself after being shot in the head looking for the “honorable” “Sergeant” Bergdahl. None of that matters a wit when you cover for and love treason. Yeah, the Judge had to consider a lot. Master Sergeant Allen has to consider a lot too when he wants to hug his daughter or even get out of bed.


52 posted on 11/05/2017 5:19:49 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: maggief

So he was a defense counsel? I guess protecting criminals never left him.


53 posted on 11/05/2017 5:21:41 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Mark17

General Officer promotions have to be approved by Congress. His name would never stay on the list now.


54 posted on 11/05/2017 5:23:03 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Godebert

I don’t understand where the deterrence factor comes in if I can leave my post, wander off into the night, and leave my comrades exposed with fear of punishment.


55 posted on 11/05/2017 5:25:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Godebert

The judge should be run over by a collum of tanks.


56 posted on 11/05/2017 5:53:45 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Godebert

Hubby too. He was a Green Beret in Vietnam and all this Beret crap just pizzes him off. Lol


57 posted on 11/05/2017 5:57:59 AM PST by sheana
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To: Godebert

Apples and oranges. The case brought to the judge’s court was his desertion, not his vacay with the Taliban.


58 posted on 11/05/2017 6:20:29 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Uncle Sam 911
His name would never stay on the list now.

He is probably perfectly willing to sacrifice his honor and promotions for Obama and the cause.

59 posted on 11/05/2017 6:29:12 AM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Godebert

There was nothing “complex” about the Begdahl case. Bergdahl admitted to desertion. The penalty for desertion during time of war is death or such other punishment (such as life in prison) as a court-martial may direct. Not only was Bergdahl a deserter, it’s probable, since the enemy didn’t kill him, that, worst still, he was also a turncoat.


60 posted on 11/05/2017 6:34:15 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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