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Speaking to The Boston Herald in October, McCain said that he would hold a congressional hearing if Bergdahl wasn't punished during his military trial. In the same interview, the Arizona Republican added that Bergdahl "clearly deserted" his post.
Bergdahl is facing a court martial for charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in June 2009. He was captured and held in captivity by the Taliban until a prisoner exchange in May 2014.
In what he referred to as the "McCain motion," lead defense attorney Eugene Fidell said that the comments by the senator not only create a more favorable landscape for military prosecutors but also fall under the category of "unlawful command influence" and could sway the opinion of the convening authority in the case, Army Gen. Robert Abrams, commanding general of Forces Command, the military official overseeing the process of bringing charges against Bergdahl.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/bergdahl-court-martial-judge-mccain-comments/index.html
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,237 posts)He spent 5 years as a Taliban prisoner. That's punishment enough. Why are they belaboring the point?
spanone
(136,012 posts)that would be some karma
brer cat
(24,695 posts)McCain and others are being very vindictive.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)After all,he is working on his Legacy or lack there of.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)McCain has lost whatever "soul" he may have ever had.
lame54
(35,395 posts)JI7
(89,308 posts)madville
(7,413 posts)When he made comments regarding sexual assault in the military. Defense counsels immediately filed motions for dismissal in existing military sexual assaults cases due to command influence and some were successful.
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