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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on May 17, 2016, 12:36:58 PM
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(http://a57.foxnews.com/media2.foxnews.com/BrightCove/694940094001/2016/03/18/612/344/694940094001_4807126150001_424afda5-b826-4674-bb32-cd0de67ecd8a.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his combat outpost in Afghanistan and spent five years in captivity, will be court-martialed under a new commander-in-chief.
A military judge decided Tuesday to delay Bergdahl's trial from August until February to provide time for resolving disputes over the defense team's access to classified documents.
Bergdahl, now 30, sat attentively in his dress blue formal uniform, his infantry cord looped under the epaulet on his right shoulder, during the brief hearing. The soldier from Hailey, Idaho, faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The latter charge is relatively rare and carries the potential of life in prison.
He was exchanged in a controversial swap for five high-ranking Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay in 2014.
A February start would mean the court-martial could make headlines only weeks after the new commander-in-chief is sworn in as president.
The judge, Col. Jeffrey Nance, also ruled that media organizations could hire a stenographer to capture courtroom discussions during the trial, and he gave Army prosecutors one week to provide reporters covering the case with online access to court documents.
The judge postponed deciding a dispute that could influence how much punishment Bergdahl could face if convicted.
The Army's primary investigating officer last year recommended against Bergdahl facing jail time, saying there is no evidence that any service members were killed or wounded searching for him in Afghanistan. A preliminary hearing officer recommended against a bad-conduct discharge.
But those recommendations were scrapped in December by the general overseeing the case. Gen. Robert Abrams, who leads the Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, instead sided with an Army lawyer's recommendation for a general court-martial.
Bergdahl's defense lawyers contend that the Army lawyer's advice to Abrams was so incomplete that it misled the four-star general. Nance did not explain why he opted against taking up the issue Tuesday.
Bergdahl was quickly captured after walking off his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009, and held as a prisoner by the Taliban and its allies until President Barack Obama exchanged five Guantanamo Bay detainees for his safe return, saying the U.S. "does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/17/bergdahl-court-martial-could-wait-until-after-november.html?intcmp=hplnws
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It really bugs me that he is still wearing that uniform. :rant:
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It really bugs me that he is still wearing that uniform. :rant:
It bugs me that this mess has been delayed for political reasons. :rant:
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It bugs me that this mess has been delayed for political reasons. :rant:
I was thinking while reading the article that this has gone on way too long.
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I was thinking while reading the article that this has gone on way too long.
Hillary was Sec. of State wasn't she? Did she have any role in the swap?
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It bugs me that this mess has been delayed for political reasons. :rant:
If you were an officer involved in this case, wouldn't you rather put it off until the current C&C leaves office. Might be better for your career.
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If you were an officer involved in this case, wouldn't you rather put it off until the current C&C leaves office. Might be better for your career.
Hillary defended this deal. If she wins, then it won't be any safer then than it is now.
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If you were an officer involved in this case, wouldn't you rather put it off until the current C&C leaves office. Might be better for your career.
IMHO delaying it won't stop what I think is going to end up happening and that is a pardon from Obama on his last day in office.
We'll hear something about Bergdahl being "a hero who served his country and spent time as a prisoner of the Taliban who doesn't need to be confined anymore than he has been already" and that will be that.
I'll actually be more surprised if it doesn't happen than if it does.
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IMHO delaying it won't stop what I think is going to end up happening and that is a pardon from Obama on his last day in office.
We'll hear something about Bergdahl being "a hero who served his country and spent time as a prisoner of the Taliban who doesn't need to be confined anymore than he has been already" and that will be that.
I'll actually be more surprised if it doesn't happen than if it does.
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If he does that, then the military will be completely broken worse than what carter attempted to do. Military discipline is hard enough with some of these 'special snowflakes' we've been getting, but when they see there is no consequence for desertion in the face of the enemy, we have no enforceable UCMJ.
Throw the book at him, throw it hard, and make him pay for his actions. But none of our chain of command have the balls to do that. They just keep punting it down the road.
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If he does that, then the military will be completely broken worse than what carter attempted to do. Military discipline is hard enough with some of these 'special snowflakes' we've been getting, but when they see there is no consequence for desertion in the face of the enemy, we have no enforceable UCMJ.
I think that's been his intent all along...to break us.
Throw the book at him, throw it hard, and make him pay for his actions. But none of our chain of command have the balls to do that. They just keep punting it down the road.
GEN Abrahams is trying to. But you know how complicated that can get when JAG gets involved.
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Hillary defended this deal. If she wins, then it won't be any safer then than it is now.
Knowing Hillary she would change her position just to stick it to Obama
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How convenient. Smells like political posturing.