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Is Obama whitewashing Bergdahl’s treason?

Sep 20, 2014 8:34 pm By Robert Spencer

Bergdahl with Haqqani2“A senior Army official told me court-martialing Bergdahl would ‘make the president look bad.’” And so a political embarrassment is shoved under the rug. “Is Obama whitewashing a traitor?,” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, September 20, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

…Obama in May presented Bergdahl as a hero in announcing his release in a Rose Garden ceremony featuring Bergdahl’s mother and father. The next day, his national-security adviser added another coat of varnish when she proclaimed the AWOL soldier “served the United States with honor and distinction.”

His platoon mates, however, say he did nothing of the kind. “Bergdahl is a deserter, not a hero [and] needs to answer for what he did,” said former Army Sgt. Evan Buetow, who served with Bergdahl and was present the night he vanished from his Afghan post.

Like Buetow, more than 60% of respondents to a recent Military Times survey believe that Bergdahl should be court-martialed for walking off his post in 2009 and costing the lives of six fellow soldiers who died searching for him.

But a senior Army official told me court-martialing Bergdahl would “make the president look bad.” In spite of damning evidence against him, the official expects Pentagon brass to separate him from the military with a less-than-honorable discharge, sparing Obama total embarrassment.

In a sign Bergdahl may indeed get off with a slap on the wrist, the Army has delayed its AR 15-6 investigation into his disappearance — a development that Bergdahl’s attorneys see as helpful to their client.

The Army investigator, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, was supposed to submit his findings to brass last month but has asked for an extension. The probe was limited to a 60-day window, which ended Aug. 15. There’s no longer a deadline attached, which means the investigation could drag out past the November election.

Dahl last month interviewed Bergdahl at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, in what his lawyer described as an “entirely nonconfrontational” meeting.

Critics doubt Dahl has the skills to conduct a proper interrogation. “No general does this. They have no training,” said the Army official, who requested anonymity upon describing Dahl as a “yes-man.”…

The evidence against 28-year-old Bergdahl is overwhelming. Here’s a bill of indictment:

Before slipping away, Bergdahl shipped much of his gear, including a personal computer, back home to Idaho.
In e-mails to his parents, excerpted in Rolling Stone, he complained he was “ashamed to even be American” and was “sorry for everything here,” adding: “These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live.”
When he left his outpost near the Pakistan border, he left behind his body armor and weapon and only took with him water and a backpack with a camera, notebook and writing materials — bizarre, given the hostile territory around his post.
He left a farewell note in which he stated he was deserting and explained his disillusionment with the war, according to The New York Times; other reports say he sought to renounce his American citizenship.
Within 24 hours, the Taliban confirmed they had picked him up, whereupon he expressed his displeasure with his countrymen and “wanted to accept Islam,” two Afghans who were Taliban commanders at the time told NBC News.
Bergdahl converted to Islam during his captivity and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, according to secret military documents obtained by Fox News.
Soon after his rendezvous with the Taliban, the improvised explosive devices the enemy used to attack US convoys became more accurate and lethal. “IEDs started going off directly under the trucks; they were getting perfect hits every time,” Beutow recalled, suggesting Bergdahl shared military intelligence with his captors.
Bergdahl had a history of leaving his post and most likely walked away on his own free will, concluded an initial investigation conducted by an Army officer in July and August of 2009. The Military Times first revealed the findings of his 35-page classified military report in June.
The Pentagon never classified Bergdahl a POW during his five years in captivity.
The president may think Bergdahl deserves a parade, but retired Army Sgt. Jordan Vaughn, who went on some 50 dangerous missions searching for Bergdahl, told Fox that “He belongs in shackles for what he did.”

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  1. Jack Holan says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    What a pathetic joke! The father is an actor in this too! I believe we know what would have happened to this soldier in WWII, Korea and probably VM.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm

      The Army has delayed its AR 15-6 investigation into his disappearance.

      Should we assume that is to allow extra time for refresher English language classes since Bergdahl was tipped off by his father to remember to ‘forget’ how to speak his native language English.
      Not since the he Hillary / Obama Benghazi film farce has the news media been so complicit as to not even blink an eye.

    • WorldWatchman says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 7:11 am

      You’re so correct. Where has America’s leadership gone? Where’s the America we remember as children? Have they all been dumbed down?

    • WorldWatchman says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 7:13 am

      I agree 100% with you. I actually feel sorry for his wife. I believe he’s dumbed her down into submission.

      • Mirren10 says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 4:08 pm

        ”I agree 100% with you. I actually feel sorry for his wife. I believe he’s dumbed her down into submission”

        Do you mean the maleficent michelle ? ”Dumbed down” ? No way. She’s as repellent and amoral as he is. We have/had the counterpart with blair and his revolting better-half, the stinking cherie.

    • Mo says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 8:54 pm

      @ oldwhiteguy

      “in saner times he would have been shot for desertion. Obama would now be in jail for fraud and treason, but this is 21st century America where down is up and up is down, black is white , and confusion reigns. reality is whatever the people are told and no one has the courage to do anything about it.”

      Exactly my feelings on this. It enraged me from the start. Even by the standards of The Age of Obama, it was unbelievable how quickly this story disappeared.

      BOTH of them are traitors and should receive the due punishment for it!

  2. EYESOPEN says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    I certainly know what Gen. George Patton would have done with this creep; and it would not have been relegated to a “slap”, as happened to the “I can’t take it anymore!” coward in Sicily.

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    A traitor or cracked in the head…or both.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 20, 2014 at 10:22 pm

      …or a double agent.

  4. Fr. Basil says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    I would remind people on here that treason can be committed only during war time, that only Congress can declare war, and we are not at war with Afghanistan.

    Bergcahl might be guilty of desertion and even espionage–but let this be determined by investigation and trial by court-martial.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 20, 2014 at 10:35 pm

      I agree
      However, the trial might be a PR sham trial.
      Let’s not forget to hire an English language translator into his newly acquired language since Bergdahl has supposedly forgotten how to speak in his native English.
      I wonder if he still remembers how to say French Fries.

      • GP says

        Sep 21, 2014 at 9:06 pm

        might be a PR sham? Everything that the WH does is a PR sham, this is no different. It is Always about the next election cycle.

    • Jack HOLAN says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 1:05 am

      By those standards Korea wasn’t a War yet we managed to try, convict and punish soldiers for treason during that “police action”

    • Paleologos says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 2:32 am

      Fr. Basil,

      May I remind you that islam is at war with infidels?

      You Catholic?

      I am.

      islam is at war with Catholics, Jews, … anybody who is not a follower of the back stabbing son of a bitch, mohammad, and his moon god, allah.

      … When these five muslim slime …

      http://time.com/2803988/guantanamo-detainees-bergdahl/

      1. Mohammad Fazl

      One of the first detainees captured in Afghanistan to be transferred to Guantanamo — in January 2002 — Fazl is the Taliban’s former deputy minister of defense. He was one of the Taliban’s founding members, rising through the ranks to become Taliban Chief of Army Staff when it ruled Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch accuses Fazl of presiding over the mass killings of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite Muslims in 2000 and 2001.

      2. Mohammad Nabi

      The former chief of Taliban security in Qalat, the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Zabul Province, Nabi was a latecomer to the Taliban, joining only in the late 1990s. After taking a few years away, he rejoined in 2000 to work as a radio operator for the Taliban’s communications office. He has claimed during U.S. military interrogations to have been working for the C.I.A. in the search for Taliban Chief Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda operatives. Those confessions may earn him difficulties upon his release.

      3. Abdul Haq Wasiq

      Also accused by Human Rights Watch of mass killings and torture during the Taliban’s time in power, the Taliban’s former deputy minister of intelligence is considered to have been at one time one of Mullah Omar’s closest confidants, with a direct line to the elusive leader.

      4. Mullah Norullah Nori

      Nori was the senior Taliban commander in the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when U.S. forces arrived in late 2001. A former governor of two northern provinces, he is considered to be one of the most high-ranking Taliban officials ever to be held in Guantanamo. He is also accused of being involved in the massacre of thousands Shi’ite Muslims in 2000 and 2001, when the Taliban attempted to purge Afghanistan of what it deemed a deviant form of Islam.

      5. Khairullah Khairkhwa

      The former Taliban governor of Heart Province, which borders Iran, Khairkhwa has also served as a military commander and a minister of the interior. He was close to Mullah Omar as well as current Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who briefly worked with the Taliban administration in the 1990s. According to the Associated Press, Khairkhwa’s U.S.-based lawyers have argued in court filings that by the time of his capture in 2002 he had already distanced himself from the Taliban.

      that our muslim turd in chief, obama, has had released from Guantanamo, in exchange for Bergdahl, AGAIN start executing terrorist plans that blow innocent people up, (by the way, … how many of these scum are teamed up with ISIS right now?) … then maybe we can try obama for treason.

      … At this point I don’t give a rat’s ass what obama and his islamocrats do to Bergdahl … what really matters, going forward, is what the five islamo-turds released by obama for Bergdahl are going to do.

      You believe in the moon god, allah?

      No?

      Then islam is at war with you.

      R/

      Paleologos

      • bB says

        Sep 21, 2014 at 8:06 am

        Well Said! Islam is not at War with Christians. Islam is at war with all unbelievers. The fact that this Bergdahl charade was televised and covered in the “news” is another blatant stab in the eye of all Americans and an insult to our military.

    • duh_swami says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 4:33 am

      Article 111 Section 3. US Constitution.

      Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

    • voegelinian says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 7:43 pm

      American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. Government in 1953 for treason in support of the Soviet Union. Congress had never declared war on the Soviet Union — neither then, before, or since. Why do people post such easily refutable nonsense here?

  5. Alice says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    Thinking he can’t harm a fellow believer.

  6. Denise says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    test

  7. Oliver says

    Sep 20, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    Obama’s National Security Adviser. Isn’t that Rice? the same person who went on, after Benghazi to say that it was all because of the video?

    And has since defended the lie?

    Or, did Obama get another liar/traitor/American hater for his inner circle.?

    (My view of Obama and his inner circle, advisers, etc.)

  8. Don McKellar says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 12:17 am

    Hey, has anybody heard if Omar Gonzalez, the White House fence jumper with the knife in his pocket , is a moslem?

    • Ciccio says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 6:58 am

      With a name like Gonzales he is obviously Hispanic. When you have hundreds of thousands of Hispanics encouraged to jump the fence for a better life he obviously just got carried away when he saw how much better life in the White House is. The poor fellow just didn’t understand that without the help Soros, every socialist, black and union thug in the States this is one fence you cannot jump.

  9. RichardL says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 3:00 am

    For Obama and his ilk he is a hero BECAUSE he deserted.

    That is all we need to know about BHO and Bergdahl.

    The generals are “working towards the Führer”. I know no Army officer who doesn’t think Bergdahl should be imprisoned. The survey is cooked.

  10. pongidae rex says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 3:26 am

    I honestly do not understand where this country still finds patriotic young people to serve in our pathetic joke of a military. Good men are killed for nothing, and idiots and deserters are placed on pedastals by no less than the President of the United States. So what did eulogy did Obama have to give about the courageous men killed looking for this piece of trash?

    Nothing.

  11. WorldWatchman says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 6:19 am

    How is it that his own Team has stated that he deserted and his computer said that he was a turned traitor and THIS President says he’s a hero who served with honor? He should be tried and sent to either a firing squad or a military prison where the other soldiers know what he did. Even those imprisoned would not want him there and would complete what this government failed to do. This is further reasoning why this so-called President is the very worst in American history.

  12. Angemon says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 6:50 am

    But a senior Army official told me court-martialing Bergdahl would “make the president look bad.”

    And the president has the next election to worry about, right? Hillary has to step in to finish what sheik Hussein started…

  13. paddy says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 9:54 am

    Looking at the photo, you can see who is active and passive

  14. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:26 am

    Whitewash is the perfect word not just for the Bergdahl episode, but for what’s been going on for 1,400 years now. Denial, it just can’t be. These Moslems appear so bad, so evil, so devastating, so unbeatable if not squarely confronted and smashed… that we must deny all that an blame it on ourselves, blame it on our ignorance or prejudice.

    Let’s all pretend that Islam is just going through a rough period that will pass as it evolves, but it’s never evolved. It just keeps on keeping on with the same program, the only difference being it adopts technologies invented and manufactured by Infidels. That’s the only progress Moslems achieve.

    And the key to this is nobody checks facts. For example, after Benghazi everybody led with the automatic proviso that the video was an awful and inexcusable thing. Really? I saw it and couldn’t find a single lie in the film. It was amateurish, but it was true. So, by not doing a reality check on Moslems, which is never done, by rule and in many places is disallowed by law, they march forward, unabated, one victory after another, with fat welfare stipends in between.

    • Patricia A. Gallagher says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 10:36 am

      “Whitewash is the perfect word…for what’s been going on for 1,400 years now. Denial….”

      A de facto (for Muslims, de jure), state of war has existed between Islam, since it’s founding Islam in the seventh century.

      Author Diane Moczar ably describes that struggle, from the First Crusade to the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, in “Islam at the Gates: How Christendom Defeated the Ottoman Turks.”

      I think it not coincidental: the rise of moral relativism in the West and the success of both violent and civilizational (stealth) jihad.

      We may “bomb them back to the Stone Age,” but history shows that military might grounded in morality — yes, in active and traditional, even if imperfect, Judeo-Christian principles — is the sharpest sword in the war against Islam.

  15. Jack Gordon says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 10:42 am

    What’s so odd about a perfect traitor honoring another traitor?

  16. Jerry says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Not surprising when a traitor is holding the highest office in the WH.

  17. S. Veritas says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 11:14 am

    I am amazed that you, Americans, haven’t impeached Obama yet! Nixon was threatened with impeachment because he lied. But Obama is actually betraying your beautiful country and NO impeachment!

  18. Paul says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 11:26 am

    Bergdahl was not entirely nuts. He called America “the most conceited country in the world”. Well, those of us who understand Americans know that an overwhelming majority of Americans are not only conceited but also arrogantly ignorant. Further, it matters very little whether the American is, say, flag waving Republican trash or a bleeding heart busybody who works for United Airlines in Chicago, where she attends First United Methodist Church. (http://chicagotemple.org/) The latter person has also—surprise!—an MBA.

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 8:34 pm

      You might consider translating this semi-literate drivel into English….

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 4:15 pm

      ”Bergdahl was not entirely nuts. He called America “the most conceited country in the world”. Well, those of us who understand Americans know that an overwhelming majority of Americans are not only conceited but also arrogantly ignorant.”

      You’re an arse. You are trying to start a little flame war here, so I won’t indulge you any further. Crawl back under your stone.

  19. Fred says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    If the spineless author has a source he should name him… otherwise this is all hearsay. More RePuke propaganda and fear.

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 21, 2014 at 8:36 pm

      Spoken like a true obamabot….. As long as the cheques (commonwealth spelling) keep coming in…

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 4:19 pm

      Goodness me, you’re as thick as a plank.

      ”His platoon mates, however, say he did nothing of the kind. “Bergdahl is a deserter, not a hero [and] needs to answer for what he did,” said former Army Sgt. Evan Buetow, who served with Bergdahl and was present the night he vanished from his Afghan post.

      Like Buetow, more than 60% of respondents to a recent Military Times survey believe that Bergdahl should be court-martialed for walking off his post in 2009 and costing the lives of six fellow soldiers who died searching for him.”

      Try posting at loonwatch, or huffpo. They love fools.

  20. profitsbeard says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    Until someone in the military has the courage (it used to be the operative concept) to speak openly and on the record about this disgusting deception, such covert chatter just shows why nothing is being done. The gelded corps.

    5 terrorists were traded back to the enemy for this apparent deserter.

    That’s the true treason.

    Negotiating with terrorists.

  21. wranglersalberta says

    Sep 21, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    Obama is the real traitor in the U.S. Traitor in Chief./

  22. EF Paisley says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 1:29 am

    We were not at war when I served in the Middle East until Carter became POTUS but upon departure from the service I was told that I could be charged with aiding the enemy if I disclosed what I did or where I was under U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason

    Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

    Many times when the President opens his mouth I cringe when he starts providing information to take credit for something or to build himself up because as my exit interview taught me these comments were treasonous. I fear for America and our allies under the “leadership?” of this buffoon.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 4:23 pm

      ”Many times when the President opens his mouth I cringe when he starts providing information to take credit for something or to build himself up because as my exit interview taught me these comments were treasonous. I fear for America and our allies under the “leadership?” of this buffoon.”

      The more I read about, and hear about, your President, the more I am convinced he is not a buffoon, but in actuality, the ”Manchurian Candidate”.

      And that goes as well for my own so-called ‘leaders’.

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