some of the activities, mailing all of his stuff home before hand, the e-mails you mentioned and talking about the terrain extensively, talking to the afghan national police in a way that was not about hearts and behind there was an agenda there when they spoke to him. i don t want him to be hailed as a hero. i want ham to fa him to face possible court-martial for de certification. he learned details on how he walked away from his unit and america s mission in afghanistan on june 30th, 2009. he called on a wire with water, food, change of clothes a life a knife and a cell phone. he called his unit theafter he deserted to tell them he deserted. he left his unit in combat not
june 30th, 2009. apparently he slipped out of his camp and the terrorists grabbed him. over the weekend the president made a deal with the taliban to have the sergeant released immediately. in return, five top taliban terrorists were held who were held in guantanamo were flown to the gulf station of qatar. taliban leadership has proclaimed the deal a huge victory. so, this is yet another troubling situation for the president. first of all, mr. obama signed a law late last year that says congress must be given 30 days notice before any detainees at guantanamo can be released or transferred. but, there is some wording in the law that gives the president some discretion. in this case the president says he had to act quickly because sergeant bergdahl s health was deteriorating in captivity. second, the sergeant was captured under very mysterious circumstances. colonel david hunt will tell us about that in a moment.