. . . Good riddance to bad rubbish!
From an AP article over the weekend:
Bergdahl seeks pardon from Obama to avert desertion trial (excerpt)
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former prisoner of war who’s accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan, is asking President Barack Obama to pardon him before leaving office. . . .
Bergdahl’s lead defense lawyer, Eugene Fidell, declined to comment Saturday on the pardon request.
But Fidell said he plans to file a motion seeking dismissal of the charges against Bergdahl shortly after the January inauguration, arguing Trump violated Bergdahl’s constitutional due-process rights.
The defense has been noting Trump’s comments about Bergdahl in what they’ve dubbed the “Trump Defamation Log.” A version included in the court record lists 40 such instances as of August.
“All of these things put together and repeated rally upon rally for basically a year have a cumulative effect that I think is totally at odds with the right to a fair trial,” Fidell said in a phone interview.
Sounds to us like Mr. Fidell thinks that Trump believes the Army “acted stupidly”.
If there is anyone out there, including “PBS liberal dupes”, who doubt that Barack Obama and the suspected ‘transvestites’ (“Ash”, Mabus, et al) who currently run the Defense Department have utter contempt for our nation’s military and stunning indifference to national security, watch how this unfolds.
We are watching the last act of the most spiteful public figure ever to stride our national stage. The pardon of Bowe Bergdahl has always been as inevitable as the illegal closing of Gitmo (soon to come) and the attempted sabotage of as many of America’s traditions and institutions and Constitutional safeguards as possible.
Barack Obama and the miserable collection of dim-witted America-hating characters who comprise his administration are about to showcase for the entire world a nursery school tantrum of biblical proportions. Look in any direction and you’ll see the attempted disregard for our country’s historic customs and conventions and well conceived safeguards to insure an orderly society.
Obama and the set of truly unstable Democratic party leaders (like Harry Reid) have put in place many judges at all levels who will insure that the most onerous actions Obama has taken will plague the people of America for generations.
The sudden decision to surrender to the illegal protesters and halt the Dakota pipeline is just one of the more “benign” acts we will see on the part of this guy. The madness of Gina McCarthy will be on full display as the EPA, in the coming weeks, attempts to put in place as many destructive regulations as her sick mind can think of which will be nearly impossible for future administrations to undo.
Is Obama the most immature person to ever hold high public office?
As he goes out the door of the White House for the last time, the extreme destructive actions Obama leaves behind will be numerous and dangerous for our entire country’s security and future well into the future.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, Mr. Obama! DLH
Addenda to the Bergdahl pardon issue
So by the lights of Bergdahl’s lawyer Mr. Fidell (ironic name for a defender of someone who maybe should be at Guantanamo?) political comments by a then merely potential commander Trump, reflecting arguably on history, means that his client cannot get a fair trial. But consider the comments of those directly impacted by his leaving his post, the relatives of those who were injured and died in the search effort, an effort Bergdahl knew would take place and that all Army helicopter operations in the field, in hostile or pacified territory, are fraught with danger. (See bold emphasis below) (We address the Major General’s comments after the excerpt)
Trump: Sgt. Bergdahl Would’ve Been Shot ’30 Years Ago’ For Being a ‘No Good Traitor’
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, who led the investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s alleged desertion from his post in Afghanistan, has said he does not think the accused deserter will go to jail, adding that a prison sentence would be “inappropriate.”
Gen. Dahl made those comments while while testifying during an Army Article 32 hearing in September at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
His comments came after members of Bergdahl’s former unit called for serious punishment, claiming that some service members lost their lives while looking for the alleged deserter.
Gen. Dahl was addressing a packed room during the court proceedings at Fort Sam Houston aimed at determining if Bergdahl will face a court martial.
The general claimed that Bergdahl left his post in an effort to intentionally spark a search and win the attention of a his superiors so that he could expose problems within his unit.
Bergdahl believed the problems were so severe that they endangered his platoon, according to Dahl.
Nevertheless, the chief investigator noted that Bergdahl’s concerns were discovered to be unsubstantiated.
Sgt, Bergdahl, now 29 years-old, was captured by the Taliban after leaving his post and was held by the terrorist group for nearly five years, until President Obama approved his exchange for five Taliban commanders held at Guantanamo.
Consider the Major General’s comments. Has he not prejudiced the case directly, not theoretically, as a matter of justice? If justice is to be unbiased, is it not still biased if it is toward announcing a conclusion that he should not go to jail? If before the trial I as a juror announced I thought the accused should not be punished does that make me a fair juror? Now what if I am also the immediate boss of some of the other jurors or potential jurors?
R Mall
