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“Soldiers of 4th Brigade 25th Infantry Division were threatened with legal repercussions if they spoke about Bergdahl”

Jun 2, 2014 3:04 pm By Robert Spencer

BergdahlYet another cover-up. And why? Were Obama Administration officials afraid that the story of a Muslim soldier (as the Taliban claimed) deserting his post and joining up with the enemy would have negative repercussions for the Administration’s fantasy-based policies?

“Former Officer: Soldiers Were ‘Threatened’ if They Questioned Bergdahl Story,” by Charlie Spiering, Breitbart, June 2, 2014:

A former U.S. officer who served in Afghanistan with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl claims that soldiers were threatened by U.S. authorities if they questioned his story.

After he was captured, Bergdahl said on a video from his captors that he lagged behind on patrol, although other sources in the military suggested anonymously that he walked away from his post.

“Not only has this nebulous non-story been put out for years but you know these soldiers of 4th Brigade 25th Infantry Division were threatened with legal repercussions if they spoke about Bergdahl. Everybody officially mandated silencing of what we saw has been so frustrating,” Bethea explained on BBC World Service Radio today.

Bethea served in Sgt. Bergdahl’s unit, and was an infantry officer in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2014[.]

CNN’s Jake Tapper also reported that many of Bergdahl’s fellow troops signed nondisclosure agreements agreeing to never share any information about Bergdahl’s disappearance and the efforts to recapture him.

Bethea explained that now he was safe, more soldiers would be trying to tell the truth of his disappearance.

BBC interviewed Bethea after he wrote an article for the Daily Beast, asserting that Bergdahl was a deserter.

“He is safe, and now it is time to speak the truth,” he wrote. “And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.”

Bethea admitted that it would probably be unlikely that Bergdahl would face a court martial, because it would cast doubt on the deal the United States made with the Taliban to secure his release….

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  1. WTD says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    Signed non-disclosure forms have failed to secret this scandal. UK DailyMail EXCLUSIVE – ‘A cover up just like Benghazi’: Outraged parents of officer who died hunting for ‘deserter’ POW Bergdahl lash out at Obama over ‘LIES’ they were told about how their hero son died

    Lt Darryn Andrews, from Dallas, Texas, died at the age of 34 on Sept 4, 2009 during his second tour of Afghanistan
    Top brass told his parents, Sondra and Andy, that he had been looking for a top Taliban commander
    But former comrades have now claimed the truth is that he was looking for Bowe Bergdahl
    Said to be one of six soldiers who died looking for the POW
    Father said: ‘For his family it’s good to get him back but we will never be able to get our son back because of the actions of this guy’
    Lt Andrews’ parents revealed their son thought Bergdahl was a ‘deserter’
    Lt Andrews was posthumously given a silver star for his bravery
    At time of his death his wife Julie, 30, had already given birth to their son, six. Their daughter was born three-and-a-half months after he died
    Father Andy against trade with terrorists
    The Facebook group ‘Bowe Bergdahl is NOT hero!’ has 5,400 members
    Bergdahl e-mailed his parents saying he ‘was ashamed to be an American’

    Beyond all this …Apparently the negotiation for these Taliban leaders (not Burgdahl) was stalled for years.

    The outed CIA operative cannot be called to testify before Congress nor can he talk to the media.

    Burgdahl, in the very least serves this administration with another political purpose (worthy of promotion /s) and that is/was to counter negative PR snowballing into political casualties (Shinseki, Petzel, Carney,etc.) during VA scandal (not to mention all the veterans deaths resulting from the secret VA wait/death panel lists).

  2. wtd says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    US concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl walked away
    WASHINGTON — A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.

  3. pongidae rex says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    It would really be hard to find a writer of fiction cynical enough to imagine this whole bizarre story and be taken seriously as anything but a lunatic or a crank. That good men died seeking to rescue a traitor and a deserter, who is now coming home at huge cost to be showered with flowers and draped in the flag is beyond sad. It is beyond tragic even. It is a descent into nihilism. What sort of fools does this government take our men and women in uniform to be?

    • WTD says

      Jun 2, 2014 at 5:41 pm

      Let’s not forget the good men who suffer altered lives or died because of the GITMO-5 our CiC released to a heroes welcome

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 3, 2014 at 7:01 am

      It’s an obscenity.

  4. DP111 says

    Jun 4, 2014 at 5:16 am

    I think I will wait for Speilberg’s Hollywood blockbuster “Saving Sgt Bowe Bergdahl”. This will expalin everything- including the heroic actions of Pres Obama, who saves the life of Bowe Bergdahl, and five innocent Afghans imprisoned in Cuba.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 4, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    “Soldiers of 4th Brigade 25th Infantry Division were threatened with legal repercussions if they spoke about Bergdahl”
    …………………..

    Unconscionable.

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