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riverwalker

(8,694 posts) Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:11 PM Jun 2014

NYT says there was NO stinkin' note

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/us-soldier-bowe-bergdahl-case-highlights-a-unit-known-for-troubles.html?_r=0&referrer=

Bergdahl Was In Unit Known For Its Troubles

The platoon was, an American military official would assert years later, “raggedy.”
On their tiny, remote base, in a restive sector of eastern Afghanistan at an increasingly violent time of the war, they were known to wear bandannas and cutoff T-shirts. Their crude observation post was inadequately secured, a military review later found. Their first platoon leader, and then their first platoon sergeant, were replaced relatively early in the deployment because of problems.

They say they do not remember his leaving behind any note or explanation

Contrast with Faux News couple days ago:

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl wrote a note expressing a desire to renounce his American citizenship, according to Fox News.
Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin reported Tuesday that members of Bergdahl’s unit said he left behind a note saying he felt disillusioned with the Army and wanted to renounce his citizenship before he was captured in 2009.

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NYT says there was NO stinkin' note (Original Post) riverwalker Jun 2014 OP

On June 2nd it was The New York Times that reported there was a note.... PoliticAverse Jun 2014 #1

They fell into the trap of parroting Fox speculation based on the rumours reported to a private Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #2

but a soldier with a less than honorable and another that uses the term libtard.. frylock Jun 2014 #3

FOX motto: "We deceive; you believe." WinkyDink Jun 2014 #4

WTF came up with the fake note story!? Josh Korder? Cha Jun 2014 #5

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. On June 2nd it was The New York Times that reported there was a note....

Reply to riverwalker (Original post)

Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:19 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html

WASHINGTON — Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan and took with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost.

Fred Sanders

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2. They fell into the trap of parroting Fox speculation based on the rumours reported to a private

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:48 PM

Jun 2014

intelligence firm paid to provide information, and, viola, information they prided in droves.

The truth of that information is an entirely different matter than the propaganda value.

The source of this juicy gossip, from the article, "That account, provided by a former senior military officer briefed on the investigation into the private’s disappearance,.....".

WTF does that even mean?

Sloppy reporting, with the sloppiness admitted, but no one cared in the rush to judgment the media is famous for in America.