I told you about this case last October. John McCain’s comments on Bergdahl case constitute unlawful Congressional interference in the UCMJ process.
Morris Davis, a retired Air Force colonel and the chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay from 2005 to 2007, writes at the New York Times today, McCain Should Stop Meddling in the Bergdahl Case:
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is to appear this month at the next hearing in his court-martial at Fort Bragg, N.C. After Sergeant Bergdahl walked off his Army outpost in Afghanistan in 2009, he was abducted and tortured by the Taliban, who subjected him to nearly five years of harsh captivity.
Sergeant Bergdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, yet two senior military officers conducting separate, impartial investigations into his case have recommended no imprisonment. That outcome would be consistent with hundreds of other post-Sept. 11 desertion cases.
But that does not sit well with certain politicians who have treated Sergeant Bergdahl’s case as if it were a political piñata. Foremost among them is Senator John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.