Obama Plans Pardon for Alleged Traitor Bergdahl ⋆ UFP NEWS
In yet another move to ruin moral and suppress the truth, the trial of the U.S. Army Sgt., Bowe Bergdahl, who is alleged to have walked off his combat outpost in Afghanistan and supposedly spent five years in captivity after he attempted to join the Taliban, will be court-martialed under a new commander-in-chief. But the real question is “will he even be tried?” 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 arranged by direct order of President Obama, for five high-ranking Taliban terrorist commanders from Guantanamo Bay in 2014. The trade has be a source of contention among lawmakers because Congress received no prior notification of the impending trade as required by law and in addition there was an unknown amount of money that was given to the terrorists that reports say was as much as 5 million dollars.
Very little information about the trade has ever been made public and a February start would mean the court-martial would not make any new information public prior to the upcoming presidential election. Mrs. Clinton was the Secretary of State at the time of the trade, so the postponement would sweep any possible embarrassment to her under the carpet until well after the election.
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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 first attempt at covering up the Bergdahl fiasco came last year, when the Army’s primary investigating officer recommended that Bergdahl should not face any jail time, because “there is no evidence that any service members were killed or wounded searching for him in Afghanistan,” but that recommendation was 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.
Obama’s decision to trade five high ranking prisoners, who have since returned to the fighting against America, was harshly criticized at the time, and Obama has never opened up to the American military or public as to why he decided to take that action. Some members of Congress said it jeopardized national security.
Now, it has been leaked by a source close to the White House that Obama has decided, “in the interest of Healing the Nation and putting this event behind us all” to issue a last minute Pardon to Bergdahl just as he is leaving office. Such an act on the part of the president would effectively block any legal action the military was going to take and forever hide any embarrassing information that could harm the Presidents legacy or any guilt by association on the part of Mrs. Clinton.
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Currently, Bergdahl can come and go the same as any other soldier from Fort Sam Houston, where he works a desk job in a headquarters unit, handling “a lot of administrative work that needs to be done. Paperwork, moving stuff from place to place, things like that,” Howard said.
Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
©2016 R. L. Grimes
Richard is a freelance Journalist, who served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. After his discharge he worked in Law Enforcement and Corrections for several years and was a member of SWAT before earning a degree in Computer Science. He was a consultant to government agencies including DEA, FBI, NRC, DOD and NASA. In the 90's he received a Business Management Degree and became a Consulting Analyst to several Fortune 100 companies. Later he taught G.E.D at Florida State Prison. He is married and has several grandchildren and great grandchildren. You can follow Richard on UniversalFreePress.com