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Why, exactly, did Bowe Bergdahl walk off?

Captured by the taliban and held in captivity for five years. also testifying at that hearing on friday was terrence russell, one of the militarys top debriefers of prisoners. terrence russell said that sergeant bergdahls treatment by the taliban was the worst that he had heard of any american prisoner of war since vietnam. mr. russell said, the level of wildly inaccurate speculation about sergeant bergdahl is outrageous. he did the best job he could do and i respect him for it. general dahl sai...

He said that after interviewing bowe bergdahl and 56 other witnesses he believes that sergeant bergdahl has been truthful. general dahl said, he absolutely believed the things he was perceiving were true, the general said that sergeant bergdahls beliefs were, quote, unwarranted but genuinely held. the story general dahl told is that sergeant bergdahl left his base with a plan to walk 18 miles to another base forward operating base. bowe bergdahl wanted to complain to the commanding general at th...

Other base about problems back at his base, problems that bowe bergdahl thought could endanger his platoon. sergeant bergdahl believed he would be able to get a meeting with the commanding general if he arrived at the base in such a shocking way. general dahl says that bowe bergdahl probably would have been allowed to speak to general if he had made it to the forward operating base. instead, sergeant bergdahl was captured by the taliban and held in captivity for five years. also testifying at th...

I think it would be inappropriate. now we know that donald trump is not going to rewrite his stories about bowe bergdahl to include everything that major general kenneth dahl has now said about the case. donald trump will probably choose one of two options. one, simply to stop talking about bowe bergdahl or, two, just keep saying the same things about bowe bergdahl, just keep making stuff up. >> when we get a traitor named bergdahl, a dirty, rotten traitor, who, by the way, when he deserted, six...

Soldiers killed search for bowe bergdahl is the stuff of mythology. general dahl said no soldiers were killed in the search for bergdahl. general dahl said sergeant bergdahl did not desert to join the taliban. general dahl did not say whether bowe bergdahl should be court-martialed but he did say, quote, i do not believe there is a jail sentence at the end of this procedure. i think it would be inappropriate. now we know that donald trump is not going to rewrite his stories about bowe bergdahl t...

Along with the client and vice versa. and i certainly had that feeling. i consider this an important case. its one that i was very happy to be asked to participate in. >> did he express gratitude? >> to me? >> no. to the united states, to the administration for being rescued? >> oh, thats -- what he told me was, and im saying -- im disclosing this with his consent, that he is deeply grateful to president obama for having saved his life. >> i know you said you spoke to general dahl. he is leading...

About the -- there was a judge who used to say the meat of the coconut. >> the meat of the coconut. okay. >> it was the late judge charles richie in washington, d.c. i think i have a very good sense of the core facts. well learn more. i still havent seen the original report that was done several years ago which is classified. im going to see that in due course. and obviously, well get a chance to see general dahls report. but i have a pretty good sense, i believe, of how events actually unfolded...