Yet 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….
WTD says
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
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).
wtd says
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.
pongidae rex says
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
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
It’s an obscenity.
DP111 says
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.
gravenimage says
“Soldiers of 4th Brigade 25th Infantry Division were threatened with legal repercussions if they spoke about Bergdahl”
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Unconscionable.