Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who was released in a prisoner exchange in Afghanistan for five Taliban detainees, wound up in the middle of a pot raid earlier this week in northern California.
Captain Greg Van Patten with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Thursday that the county’s marijuana eradication team encountered Bergdahl on Tuesday while serving a search warrant on a home in Redwood City, Calif.
Van Patten said Bergdahl was detained, but ultimately was “determined not to be connected to the operation, at least there was no evidence to suggest he was involved.”
It used to be that deserters in wartime were promptly shot. A deserter who evidently intended to defect would be doubly certain to die as a consequence. But with Bowe Bergdahl, other people did the dying for him — namely the 14 soldiers who died trying to find him before it was established that he had deserted.
Good thing Obama traded five top terrorist commanders to get Bergdahl back from Afghanistan. He really seems to be turning his life around.
Bergdahl’s trial was supposed to begin this month, but “was postponed for two months at the request of his legal team.” Although there would be no shortage of volunteers, the wrist slap he eventually receives will not entail a firing squad.
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