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doxydad

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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 08:44 AM Jun 2014

Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial by the press

The Army has no immediate plans to punish Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for leaving his post in Afghanistan, Secretary of the Army John McHugh said in a statement on Tuesday, putting Bergdahl’s medical and psychological needs first. Bergdahl, a Taliban prisoner for the past five years, was swapped over the weekend for five Talban heavyweights imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.

That doesn’t mean Bergdahl is off the hook. Already, the 28-year-old soldier has been called a traitor by members of his platoon in the pages of the New York Daily News and on CNN. Members of his unit have blamed him in the New York Times for the deaths of other troopers sent out to rescue him, although the newspaper heavily discounts those claims. James Rosen has even published on FoxNews.com a piece sourced anonymously to the Defense Department speculating that Bergdahl was an “active collaborator with the enemy.”

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2014/06/03/bowe-bergdahls-court-martial-by-the-press/

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Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial by the press (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
Chris Hayes did a good job summarizing the situation MBS Jun 2014 #1
Chris Matthews has soured me on MSNBC Drtex24 Jun 2014 #2

MBS

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1. Chris Hayes did a good job summarizing the situation
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:37 AM
Jun 2014
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Drtex24

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2. Chris Matthews has soured me on MSNBC
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 11:57 PM
Jun 2014

Matthews acted terrible on his show about Bergdahl. He would not listen to reason or his guests. He's off my DVR.

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