Bergdahl. The painful rash that just won’t go away…

| September 21, 2020

Bergdahl lawyers say military judge’s job application posed conflict

ninja sends us the Military Times article and on the latest attempts by Bergdahl’s lawyers to free the convicted deserter.

A new motion filed in the case of former U.S Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is asking the highest appeals court for the U.S. military to overturn his conviction, citing an alleged conflict of interest involving the judge who originally presided over his sentencing.

The motion filed Friday seeks to have the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces re-examine the impartiality of retired Army Col. Jeffrey Nance, the military judge who sentenced Bergdahl. The motion says Nance was working to secure a job with the Department of Justice at the time of his ruling in the Bergdahl case.

The appellate judges upheld Bergdahl’s conviction earlier this year in a narrow 3-2 decision when they held that disparaging comments made about Bergdahl by the late Sen. John McCain and President Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden back in October 2017 did not invalidate his prosecution.

On Oct. 16, the same day Nance accepted Bergdahl’s guilty plea, court documents show he applied for a position as a federal immigration judge.

Following Trump’s comments, Bergdahl’s attorney asked Nance to dismiss the case because of Trump’s comments “vilifying” Bergdahl.

According to court documents, Nance assured Bergdahl’s counsel that Trump’s comments would have no impact on his decision saying, “I have no hope or ambition beyond my current rank … I am completely unaffected by any opinions President Trump may have about Sgt. Bergdahl.”

But according to the motion, Nance highlighted his role as the judge presiding over Bergdahl’s case while applying to work in the Justice Department and even included as a writing sample a ruling rejecting Bergdahl’s unlawful command influence arguments.

Court documents state Nance never disclosed he was applying for a position as an immigration judge. But a press release announced his appointment to the position, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in September 2018.

Judges like to protect each other, much the same as those wearing stars do, so I don’t expect this to go anywhere substantive. The traitor pled guilty of his own volition rather than stand trial for his misdeeds and terrorist sympathizing.

Obama was quite proud to trade five ranking Taliban for this turd who left his post to wander into the arms of the enemy. Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice said Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction.”

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Skippy

Amazing he hasn’t had a accident yet

MSG Eric

His supporters probably keep him under lock and key.

E4 Mafia '83-'87

Can we trade Barry Bananas for…how about actual bananas and will throw in Bergdahl for free?

Andy11M

Funny thing, wasn’t the FBI or some other agency on the cusp of getting dumbass back with out a body swap when the White House swooped in with this trade?

A Proud Infidel®™

I say we give Bergdahl a one way trip to Afghanistan and let the Taliban keep him this time!

OWB

Is it really expecting too much for this idiot to simply be grateful that he wasn’t put to death as a traitor and quietly live out his remaining years? One can hope that some day soon it will occur to him that silence is his friend.

Hack Stone

He should reach out to Robert Garwood. Garwood can give him tips on swinging a book deal and movie of the week, both exclusively from his point of view.

Charles

Maybe the conviction should be set aside, and Bergdahl returned to the Taliban. You know, put everything back the way it was.

Do you think the Taliban would return their five fighters, just to square things up?

Then we could try this all over again (minus the part about actually going out looking for him).

Hack Stone

President Trump comments on SGT Bergdahl, and the left calls it “undue command influence”. President Obama says that SGT Bergdahl “served with honor and distinction”, and crickets from the other side. And how come nobody is bringing up that during those five years, he not only accumulated promotion points, but dodged all of the Combined Federal Campaign drives?

NHSparky

And Army Relief, or whatever the equivalent is of Navy/Marine Corps Relief Fund.

And don’t even get me started on Red Cross bullshit.

MustangCryppie

Oh Lord! I’m dyin’ here!!!

Ex-PH2

Perhaps those who were injured during the S&R episode of trying to find that scumbag should be given a chance to speak their opinion pieces about this bucket of hog’s offal.

AW1Ed

Grasping at straws. I’m sure Bergdahl’s defense attorney(s) will ride this milk train, err, leave no avenue for justice unexplored. Who is he?

https://www.bustle.com/articles/72156-who-is-bowe-bergdahls-lawyer-eugene-fidell-he-has-a-history-in-military-law-high

Someone is paying the big bucks.

MarineDad61

AW1Ed,
That’s NOT milk….
when it comes from milking a boy cow.

Ex-PH2

Okay, then. I read that article and down at the bottom of it, this caught my eye:

“…a person who under no circumstances would be a candidate for, you know, serious….”

Throwing in that ‘you know’ phrase? That’s what tricksters do, to deflect attention from the REAL issue onto those being addressed.

It is not unusual for deserters from the opposition in war time to be tormented by their captors, is it? Or is it just something that only occasionally happens?

Not pointing out ‘the obvious’, just asking questions.

rgr769

I bet the only “abuse” suffered by Berg-boi was to his “anuse,” as Borat would say.

His lawer is likely getting some Soros-bucks. I doubt he is doing all this work totally pro bono, for free.

Poetrooper

I’m sure there are plenty of funding sources within the Democrat party as Bergdahl represents the textbook example of a Democrat war hero, ala John Kerry, Bradley Manning, Dicky Blumenthal and, of course, Jane Fonda.

They’d probably like to add Hunter Biden to that heroic pantheon as well…

Jarhead

Where can I send Bergshit an inflatable party goat with a beard?

NHSparky

Same place you can send him the bags of sugar-free gummy disks.

Sun Valley, Idaho, last I checked.

RetiredDevilDoc8404

They should give him the option of having the DD overturned and face a new general court martial on all counts with the added charge of misconduct before the enemy and inform him that they will be seeking the death penalty for those counts which call for it or live with what he got and go away. Bowe, baby don’t go way mad. Just go away, crawl back underneath whatever rock you crawled out from under a live out your useless existence. Better yet become a hermit or a monk in an order with a vow of perpetual silence.

MarineDad61

But but but….
Stolen Valor phony Desert Storm “Times” Veteran Les Brown
and his merry band of Nevada phony badass black leather vest idiots, the
Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass…….
still have a stockpile of Bowe Bergdahl “merch” to unload (sell).
You know….
“for the cause.”

http://www.elkonvpowmia.org/merch.html

Berliner

Ahem… a reminder: During his captivity by the Taliban, his father Robert Bergdahl (@bobbergdahl) tweeted to a Taliban spokesman on 5/28/14:

“@ABalkhi I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen!” (ameen is arabic for trustworthy)

He later deleted that tweet. CNN reported this so you know it has to be true.

MSG Eric

It would be a consideration, but his little speech at the Rose Garden was AFTER Bergie was on his way home already.

So, fuck that guy too.

5th/77th FA

Twunt! Maybe he could go to work for oblowme and Susan Rice as part of their detail. After he makes up for all of the SHARPE training he missed.

Or he could just ESAD!

Ex-PH2

Or he could finally realize that no one gives a crap about him and get his whiny mouth (and ass) sewn shut.

ninja

And now we have a US Army Civil Affairs Specialist AND a NYPD acting as a SPY for China!!!!

Sheesh! You can’t make this stuff up!

“NYPD officer accused of acting as a spy for China..
The alleged espionage activity occurred from May 2018 to his arrest, prosecutors said”.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nypd-officer-spy-china

“The complaint said Angwang serves as a civil affairs specialist with a rank of staff sergeant in the Army Reserve and is stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. His duties include advising commanders on tactical and operational deployment of civil affairs teams and assisting in the planning, training and executing of civil-military programs. He holds a “SECURITY” level security clearance, which allows him access to classified information.”

“Angwang lives in Nassau County, Long Island, and works out of the 111th Precinct in Queens, officials said. He is assigned to the community affairs unit, where he serves as a liaison between the NYPD and the surrounding community served by the precinct.”

“A NYCPD Officer was arrested Monday on suspicion of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors said.”

“Baimadajie Angwang, 33, who was born in China’s Tibet region and serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, allegedly reported on the activity of ethnic Tibetans in the New York area to the Chinese consulate and was tasked with recruiting potential intelligence assets among the city’s Tibetan community, prosecutors said.”

“As an agent, he “spotted and assessed potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York metropolitan area and beyond,” the complaint said. Tibetans have long been oppressed by the Chinese government and many are believed to have been killed since China occupied the region decades ago.”

ninja

Ex-PH2

AngWang? Who names their kid like that?

It sounds like some kind of lethal dysfunction in the nether regions.

rgr769

But remember, China is our friend and does not have a communist single party government.

MSG Eric

His duties include advising commanders on tactical and operational deployment of civil affairs teams and assisting in the planning, training and executing of civil-military programs. He holds a “SECURITY” level security clearance, which allows him access to classified information.”

a “SECRET” security clearance is required to hold the 38B MOS, so any 38B has one. But the rest of that is just fancy talk for meaning he’s a Civil Affairs Team Sergeant (4-member team) that supports a maneuver battalion while deployed. There are a few different types of CA teams, but that’s the same basic duty position.

That’s also a CA Battalion on Jump status and most likely the only reason he’s in that unit is because he speaks another language fluently. (They have lots of troops in other units wanting to join the few jump units for the extra pay.)

ninja

ninja

News Story also stated he served in the Marine Corps.

ninja

What type of background checks do they do theses day for the Army/Marine Corps and the Police Department?

Sheesh!

5th/77th FA

ninja, I think they use the mirror test. You have to be able to fog one up a bit with your breath. If you inhale when they put the mirror to your nose, you get the Hunter Biden enlistment bonus with a Commission in the Navy. (dodges a thrown flight helmet)

gabn/rtr/hbtd

MSG Eric

“Hey do you wanna join?”

“Sure”

“Are you going to do something bad or naughty while you’re in the service?”

“Nahhh”

Sounds good, here’s your Secret Clearance!

Thunderstixx

Put ’em all in a room and turn my bestest friend, ever, the Master BLaster himself on all of them…
We’ve talked about it, he is for lighting them up one by one just so the other get a show to watch as their number being the crocodile bait becomes smaller and smaller.
When their number is up, their molecular structure is scattered across several city blocks, courtesy of my bestest friend, and any kind of cleanup requires a very expensive Shop Vac !!!

11B-Mailclerk

So the solution to make him go away is for Cruex, an unusual punishment?

Mustang Major

WTF? Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice said Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction.”

Rice must have used her government service as the benchmark for that statement.