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(85,986 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 09:46 PM Jun 2014

White House: ‘NO EVIDENCE’ Bergdahl fraternized with Taliban

The Hill ?@thehill 11m
White House: ‘No evidence’ Bergdahl fraternized with Taliban http://j.mp/TjKUq4 by @JTSTheHill


_____ A senior White House aide said Thursday he had seen “no evidence” to confirm a report that rescued Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl converted to Islam, fraternized with the Taliban, and declared jihad during nearly five years of captivity.

“We have seen no evidence of that,” deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told CNN when asked about a Fox News report about Bergdahl’s conduct while imprisoned by the Taliban.

Blinken went on to say it was “repugnant” that critics were drawing conclusions about Bergdahl’s service before military investigators had a chance to determine all the facts.

“The idea that we are trying Sergeant Bergdahl in the court of public opinion in abstentia, without giving him an opportunity to give his story and to tell us what happened, frankly, I find repugnant,” Blinken said. “We don't know what happened. We are determined to get to the bottom of it. The military will investigate appropriately. Let's get the facts before we rush to judgment.”


read: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/208440-white-house-no-evidence-bergdahl-fraternized-with-taliban

related:

Oh, look, here's a former CIA op indicted for lying about Iran/Contra making claims about Bergdahl and selling them on FOX
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025054646

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White House: ‘NO EVIDENCE’ Bergdahl fraternized with Taliban (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2014 OP
America has abandoned the pondering pace of due process, the quick verdict of Twitter is more Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #1
Murrow bigtree Jun 2014 #2
K&R. Another Faux News lie goes down but of course now the lie is out there, it won't die nt riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #3
it won't die in some folks' minds bigtree Jun 2014 #5
kick bigtree Jun 2014 #4

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. America has abandoned the pondering pace of due process, the quick verdict of Twitter is more
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 10:52 PM
Jun 2014

entertaining.

bigtree

(85,986 posts)
2. Murrow
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:31 PM
Jun 2014
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.


Edward R. Murrow, See It Now (1954).

bigtree

(85,986 posts)
5. it won't die in some folks' minds
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:52 AM
Jun 2014

. . . but there's going to be a period in folks' lives when these questions about conduct during war become less important as the horror of the conflict sinks in over time and reconciliation becomes an integral part of healing and understanding.

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