Surprisingly GOOD NEWS! Bowe Bergdahl faces desertion charge in court martial for walking off post

Markle wrote:Surprisingly GOOD NEWS!

Bowe Bergdahl faces desertion charge in court martial for walking off post in case featured on ‘Serial’ podcast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, December 14, 2015

WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in a general court-martial, said an attorney for the captured soldier who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

Attorney Eugene Fidell said Monday the convening authority — a high-ranking officer charged with deciding whether evidence warrants a court-martial — did not follow the advice of a preliminary hearing officer. The officer had recommended that Bergdahl’s case be moved to a special misdemeanor-level military court.

Fidell said he had “hoped the case would not go in this direction.”

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bowe-bergdahl-faces-desertion-charge-court-martial-article-1.2465675

The maximum penalty for these charges is LIFE IN PRISON.  

Salinsky wrote:

Markle wrote:Surprisingly GOOD NEWS!

Bowe Bergdahl faces desertion charge in court martial for walking off post in case featured on ‘Serial’ podcast
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, December 14, 2015

WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in a general court-martial, said an attorney for the captured soldier who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

Attorney Eugene Fidell said Monday the convening authority — a high-ranking officer charged with deciding whether evidence warrants a court-martial — did not follow the advice of a preliminary hearing officer. The officer had recommended that Bergdahl’s case be moved to a special misdemeanor-level military court.

Fidell said he had “hoped the case would not go in this direction.”

[...]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bowe-bergdahl-faces-desertion-charge-court-martial-article-1.2465675

The maximum penalty for these charges is LIFE IN PRISON.  

Good.

The system works.

Too bad you traitorous, seditious assholes hate the system so much.  

Vikingwoman wrote:What's wrong w/ you people wanting a human being to suffer endlessly?  He walked off post. Ok- he was tortured and starved for 5 years. How much punishment does someone have to suffer before it's enough? This is a sick world full of hate.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:Yeah Hillary broke hundreds of laws and got lotsa people killed in the process and never got so much as a perp walk, so what does it matter if they punish this peon ?

PkrBum wrote:In obamaworld... Desertion is "served with honor and distinction". I swear this administration is assbackwards.

Floridatexan wrote:
The haters have seized on Bergdahl as a scapegoat for the misbegotten wars of the Bush administration.  The absolute glee over his trial is sickening.  

boards of FL wrote:Let's see.  Markle, PkrBum, TEO, and Joani.  Yep.  I think that's it.

Ahem.  You all miserable shitbags of human beings.  

And I mean that with the utmost sincerity.  Seriously.

Vikingwoman wrote:There were no lives lost because of Bergdahl. Why do you persist in lying about everything? I thought you professed to be a Christian?

Salinsky wrote:I have no problem with the prosecution.

What was really obscene was the suggestion that he should have been left in captivity with the enemy.

The same assholes who drape themselves with the flag and brag about how much they "support the troops" turning around and insisting some troops don't deserve to come home at all.

That's sickening.

boards of FL wrote:Let's see.  Markle, PkrBum, TEO, and Joani.  Yep.  I think that's it.

Ahem.  You all miserable shitbags of human beings.  

And I mean that with the utmost sincerity.  Seriously.

Joanimaroni wrote:

boards of FL wrote:Let's see.  Markle, PkrBum, TEO, and Joani.  Yep.  I think that's it.

Ahem.  You all miserable shitbags of human beings.  

And I mean that with the utmost sincerity.  Seriously.

Lol...feel better?

I can see where you would have feelings for a traitor that walked away from his post.

Markle wrote:

Salinsky wrote:I have no problem with the prosecution.

What was really obscene was the suggestion that he should have been left in captivity with the enemy.

The same assholes who drape themselves with the flag and brag about how much they "support the troops" turning around and insisting some troops don't deserve to come home at all.

That's sickening.

He gave up being an American troop when he deserted and chose to give support to the enemy.

desertion
See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Military The action of illegally leaving the armed forces:
three officers were shot for desertion

These are the charges.

The U.S. Army Forces Command charged Bergdahl on March 25 with "desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty" and "misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place."

These are deadly serious charges which cost the lives of his fellow soldiers.  My only regret is that the death penalty is not on the table.  I would eagerly serve on the firing squad.

To have traded a deserter for five of the top al Qaeda terrorist leaders is criminal.  One of the released terrorists has already rejoined his leadership role and is intent on killing more Americans.

How would you explain to the relatives and loved ones of those killed searching for Bergdahl and for those killed, down the road, by those high ranking terrorists released by semi-relative President was a grand idea.

Vikingwoman wrote:Boards is right. Bergdahl wasn't a traitor. He was a misguided young man who wanted to bring attention to what was going on over there like killing innocent people and running over children w/ tanks. If anything he was more decent than any of you who never even bothered to find out the real truth. He never aided the enemy and the Army determined no one was killed because of him. It's all bullshit you want to believe because you're all dishonest hate mongering maggots that parade as human beings.

Vikingwoman wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

boards of FL wrote:Let's see.  Markle, PkrBum, TEO, and Joani.  Yep.  I think that's it.

Ahem.  You all miserable shitbags of human beings.  

And I mean that with the utmost sincerity.  Seriously.

Lol...feel better?

I can see where you would have feelings for a traitor that walked away from his post.

Where was he a traitor? He was a POW for 5 years tortured and starved. Do you not even have the decency to find out the truth before you condemn someone as a traitor? The Army hasn't charged him as a traitor. Why do you think you know more?