Tuesday’s public hearing was Bergdahl’s first appearance before a judge since he disappeared from Combat Outpost Mest-Malak in Paktika Province, Afghanistan on June 20, 2009. He was captured and reportedly held in Pakistan until he was ransomed and exchanged in May 2014 for five men associated with the Taliban who were detained at the United States military detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
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This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Bergdahl’s attorney Eugene Fidell said politicians and others have been using Bergdahl as a talking point to push their own agendas for months. Bergdahl walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years. His next hearing is scheduled for January 12. He did not decide whether he wanted to face a court-martial with a jury or one with just a judge and said little beyond answering “yes” and “no” to questions about whether he understood his rights and the court proceedings.
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Bergdahl was arraigned Tuesday during a short hearing.
He was released in a prisoner swap in 2014.
Bergdahl’s case has become the focus of a new season of the hit podcast Serial. He said he left in order to trigger an alert that would gain him an audience with senior military officials, where he could highlight issues he felt were putting his unit at danger.
“I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing”, Bergdahl said in the interview.
Troops were injured and killed looking for Bergdahl, Buetow said, and others in his platoon were in constant fear that Bergdahl would give up information – either voluntarily or via torture – that would endanger them.
During a preliminary hearing in September, a presiding officer in the case recommended that Bergdahl be tried before a special court-martial rather than a general court-martial; the latter usually ends in more severe sentences.
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But General Robert Abrams, the head of U.S. Army Forces Command, ultimately made a decision to refer the case to a general court martial.
