Bergdahl answered “yes” and “no” to questions posed by the military judge at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
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Members of the Taliban captured Bergdahl shortly after he walked off his Army post, and the insurgent group held him prisoner for five years, which is the longest any American has ever survived as a prisoner of the Taliban.
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Standing before the judge in Fort Bragg, N.C., “Bergdahl deferred entering a plea and did not decide whether he wants to face a court-martial with a jury or one with just a judge”, reports the Associated Press (AP). Now, he faces a full military court-martial, charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
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The hearing is the first step in Bergdahl’s prosecution before a general courts martial. In contrast, statistics show the U.S. Army prosecuted about 1,900 desertion cases between 2001 and the end of 2014. In May 2014, Bergdahl was released by the Taliban in exchange for prisoners being held by the U.S.at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
He said he quickly regretted his decision to leave, then concocted a plan to redeem himself by trying to track Taliban insurgents to get valuable intelligence.
The military officer who headed the investigation testified in September he believed Bergdahl should not face prison time.
His attorney Eugene Fidell, who did not attend Tuesday’s hearing, has said his client endured torture during his captivity, including months chained to a bed and years chained on all fours or locked in a cage.
The next pretrial hearing was scheduled for January 12 before Army Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance, who will preside over future hearings. 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.
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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.
