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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Aug 16, 2014, 07:20 PM Aug 2014

More time given for Bergdahl disappearance probe

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A general investigating the disappearance of a U.S. Army sergeant in Afghanistan is getting several more weeks to complete his probe.

U.S. Army spokesman Wayne Hall said in an email Saturday that the final draft of the report on Sgt. Bowe Berdahl will take another three weeks to complete. Maj. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl had 60 days from his June 16 appointment to finish his work. That deadline was Friday.

Hall says once Dahl submits his final report, it will undergo a separate legal review before being presented to Army leadership. Bergdahl was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years. His exchange for five Taliban leaders has generated criticism due to allegations Bergdahl was a deserter.

Bergdahl is currently stationed at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.

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More time given for Bergdahl disappearance probe (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2014 OP

Before President Obama got him back, they criticized the president for not caring about the troops jmowreader Aug 2014 #1

+1! Cha Aug 2014 #5

Good. Do it right so there's no questions. K&R nt riderinthestorm Aug 2014 #2

This is not uncommon. I've done dozens of preliminary MADem Aug 2014 #3

Correct... Arrowood Aug 2014 #4

It would have been nice to put even this amount of heat on Bush or Cheney. Cut him loose. marble falls Aug 2014 #6

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

1. Before President Obama got him back, they criticized the president for not caring about the troops

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 07:49 PM

Aug 2014

Come November 11, if the president were to walk on water across the Potomac to lay a wreath at the Marine Corps Memorial, the hard right would criticize him for (1) acting like Jesus again, (2) ignoring the other three services and (3) being afraid to swim.

Anything President Barack Obama does or doesn't do, in the past, the present or twenty years in the future, is going to bring on massive butthurt among the right wing. This of course only means he's being effective.

Cha

(297,621 posts)

5. +1!

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 17, 2014, 06:30 AM

Aug 2014

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

2. Good. Do it right so there's no questions. K&R nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 08:35 PM

Aug 2014

MADem

(135,425 posts)

3. This is not uncommon. I've done dozens of preliminary

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 09:01 PM

Aug 2014

inquiries, and more often than not I've requested an extension. I don't think anyone should read anything into this request. The witnesses and personnel in the chain of command are scattered hither and yon after five years.

Arrowood

(29 posts)

4. Correct...

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Sat Aug 16, 2014, 10:02 PM

Aug 2014

marble falls

(57,187 posts)

6. It would have been nice to put even this amount of heat on Bush or Cheney. Cut him loose.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Aug 17, 2014, 10:12 PM

Aug 2014

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