Should Bergdahl be punished?Obama's Rose Garden appearance on Saturday, with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents, Robert and Jani, seemed to suggest that the G.I. would return to the U.S. a hero. But with new questions over the last few days about the troops who died trying to find Bergdahl - long suspected of having deserted his unit five years ago - and new statements from senior defense officials indicating that he may still face charges, there's increasing evidence to suggest that the Pentagon could pursue a legal course of action against him. Alex Berenson on the op-ed page of the NYT: "...As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have. In this case, perhaps, the reverse was true. The White House worked tirelessly to free Sergeant Bergdahl, and did not let the murk around his disappearance stop its decision to trade Taliban detainees for him. I'm no soldier, but that decision seems right to me. No man, or woman, left behind.
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The law is on the books, and he didn't follow it.'
Did President Obama break the law?CS Monitor's Peter Grier: "...The law in question was enacted as part of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). When he signed that bill into law Obama included a signing statement which warned he might do what he just did. 'The executive branch must have the flexibility ... to act swiftly in conducting negotiations with foreign countries regarding the circumstances of detainee transfers,' said the statement at the time.
"Here's the problem: By themselves, signing statements have no legal force. It may seem odd that Congress didn't include a little wiggle room for emergency contingencies in regards to prisoner handling, but it didn't. Some legal analysts thus conclude that it's pretty clear the swap was illegal under the NDAA language.
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's senior legal analyst: "'...The law is on the books, and he didn't follow it.'
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"The argument doesn't end there, however. What if the law in question is itself unconstitutional? After all, the president of the United States is also the nation's commander in chief under the Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause I). That invests him with enormous military powers, particularly in regards to tactical and strategic decisions. What if Congress passed a law requiring a 30-day notice before a president could order troops to patrol? That would pretty clearly be unconstitutional. Some analysts argue that a decision to repatriate a captured soldier isn't much different." More here.
Did six soldiers really die for Bergdahl?Some military officers would tell you the six troops who have been identified as being killed during the search mission for Bergdahl at the time could have been killed regardless of their mission, and to tie it to Bergdahl is thin. The NYT's Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren take a look at the murky issues surrounding those claims on Page One, here.
All those soldiers criticizing Bergdahl had some Republican messaging help.Buzzfeed's Rosie Grey and Kate Nocera: "A former Bush administration official who was hired, then resigned, as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman played a key role in publicizing critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the released prisoner of war. The involvement of Richard Grenell, who once served as a key aide to Bush-era U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and later worked for Romney's 2012 campaign, comes as the Bergdahl release has turned into an increasingly vicious partisan issue." More here.
"The argument doesn't end there, however. What if the law in question is itself unconstitutional? After all, the president of the United States is also the nation's commander in chief under the Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause I). That invests him with enormous military powers, particularly in regards to tactical and strategic decisions. What if Congress passed a law requiring a 30-day notice before a president could order troops to patrol? That would pretty clearly be unconstitutional. Some analysts argue that a decision to repatriate a captured soldier isn't much different." More here.
Did six soldiers really die for Bergdahl?Some military officers would tell you the six troops who have been identified as being killed during the search mission for Bergdahl at the time could have been killed regardless of their mission, and to tie it to Bergdahl is thin. The NYT's Charlie Savage and Andrew Lehren take a look at the murky issues surrounding those claims on Page One, here.
All those soldiers criticizing Bergdahl had some Republican messaging help.Buzzfeed's Rosie Grey and Kate Nocera: "A former Bush administration official who was hired, then resigned, as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman played a key role in publicizing critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the released prisoner of war. The involvement of Richard Grenell, who once served as a key aide to Bush-era U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and later worked for Romney's 2012 campaign, comes as the Bergdahl release has turned into an increasingly vicious partisan issue." More here.
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