Posted on 06/09/2014 7:47:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Next we’ll hear that Bowe and Hagel are secret lovers and that they are going to carry out a joint suicide pact on the pitcher’s mound at Yankee Stadium on the Fourth of July.
No way anything will happen this turd.
It would be an admission that Obama is an idiot.... so it ain’t happening.
They’d shoot the top rated 200 conservative talk radio hosts before they’d give Sergeant Bergdahl a company-grade Article 13.
Never surrendered, never reconstructed.
I might pay a dollar or two to see that.
He can only be pardoned....if he’s charged and the court finds him guilty. Having seen military justice and its speed...there’s no way a court episode will occur in 2014 unless he admits guilt and does a plea deal. So I think it’s a spring 2015 episode. This means Bergdahl remains in uniform and will be under some form of house arrest (because of his walking habits).
As for the pardon odds? It really draws negative attention to the administration and will infuriate the vet crowd (who might be equally divided as Republicans and Democrats). News media trying to turn it all into a non-event? They might try but it’s already viewed from overseas and there’s some negativity weighing heavily on this wrapping up quickly. Maybe Bergdahl signs a guilty plea to do twelve months in a prison, and the Army gives him a bad conduct discharge at the end.
Article 13???
I know it’s late....but ya gotta really be unlucky to get one of those! :-)
That would be awesome! Make it Pay Per View with the proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior fund!
We could get Chelsea Manning to see them off...
There’s some empty spaces at Gitmo so let’s send him there. No, that would be too nice.
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
ART. 13 PUNISHMENT PROHIBITED BEFORE TRIAL
No person, while being held for trial, may be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges pending against him, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon him be any more rigorous than the circumstances required to insure his presence, but he may be subjected to minor punishment during that period for infractions of discipline.
Then how was former President Nixon pardoned by President Ford without being charged or a trial?
...after he’s finished his tour as Chief Negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. Bowe will be nominated by Obama to represent both sides.
John Kerry, Junior?
Dunno? Peer to peer?
I want to know why a Muslim with Al Qeada contacts was allowed constant access into classified comms systems.
Ah. I apologize.
Nope, sorry, that doesn’t play with the WH hero story. No way can they spin the exchange of 5 bad guys for one bad guy. But, then again, Benghazi was all about a video.
Or: I guess the same way that 0bama won the Peace Prize before doing anything that he didn’t get it for. Or something.
Barack Obama or Bob Bergdahl? [snort]
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