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Exclusive: Bowe Bergdahl 'Should Be Charged Without Question'
by Jordan Schachtel
2 Jun 2014

Breitbart News had the opportunity to speak with Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' The Long War Journal, about the ongoing debacle over the exchange of five senior Taliban commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Roggio has been praised for being “the best-in-class on situation awareness, especially of the Af-Pak theater.” He was embedded within the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army as a reporter in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and he also served in the Army from 1991 to 1997.

He provided Breitbart News with valuable feedback:

Breitbart News: What is your interpretation of the events that unfolded that led to Bowe Bergdahl’'s capture by Taliban forces.

Bill Roggio: You may notice that the U.S. military has been completely silent on that; they haven’t released any details. People in the theater I’ve spoken to have said that at the very best, he walked off the base on his own. I have heard that he believed he could live off the land in Afghanistan and had changed into local clothes in an attempt to blend in. I’ve also heard that he may have been coaxed off the base by talking to local Afghan soldiers who were on the base. Nobody in theater has been enthusiastic about Bergdahl’s actions. Nobody believes that he was on a patrol, as he claims. Because he was cooperative in issuing Taliban propaganda tapes, there’s not a lot of love for the guy. There are soldiers who have gone out and tried to save him. Some lost their lives doing so.

The military needs to tell us what actually happened that day. I doubt they will get to the bottom of it because it's going to contradict the hero narrative that's being put forward by our administration. They are trying to tell us that he’s this heroic captured soldier who survived Taliban custody...

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