with desertion, with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and miss behavior before the enemy bien dangering the safety command unit or place and referred the case to an article 32 preliminary hearing. again, sergeant bergdahl is charged under the uniform code of military justice with one count of article 85 desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty and one count of article 99 miss behavior before the enemy by endangering a command, unit or place. as you recall the sergeant disappeared june 30th 2009 from combat outpost in afghanistan and was subsequently captured. regarding next steps.
haqqani network. on june 30th, 2009, i was an adviser for the commander of the area and we got a call that a individual had walked off the base and was situation was somewhat unclear, but as soon as we had people in the area, we knew that was an area for kidnapping. david rode of the new york times had just escaped and they were looking for another american, so weshl able to track them. within a couple of days, they had sold bergdahl to the haqqani network. we tracked him to pakistan and then were told to wave off. that surprised you, didn t it? yeah, because there was a lot of military activity after that which was unnecessary, because bergdahl was in pakistan. i don t have the opinion or activity this, but he did a good job of tracking him. his location was known for a long time, then he was moved around. we refound him and it was a mystery why he had spent five
you met in alaska. tell us, what was he like? when i first met him, he was a pretty nice guy. he just seemed like one of the guys. after he disappeared the morning of june 30th, 2009, and you thought about things he had said and done before that, was there anything that he said to you that might have been more important in retrospect that might help explain what happened? maybe. the time before he left, three days before he disappeared, he said what would it be like to disappear in the mountains? do you think i can make it to
very much not an enemy on the run, as we have heard the administration say on occasion. jennifer, thank you very much. now more on the secret reports that a private intelligence firm gathered on sergeant bergdahl s time in captivity. james rosen was the first to get an eye on those reports and he s live for us in washington. james, what have you learned from these documents? harris, good afternoon. these documents consist of realtime dispatches, from a pentagon subcontractor call eed the eclipse group. it s a group whose sit reps offer for the first time a detailed timeline of sergeant bergdahl s five years in captivity. we start with bergdahl s capture by the hakani network on june 30th, 2009. within 90 days, his captors began exploring a prisoner swap. by may of 2010, negotiations for bergdahl s release were said to have collapsed. on june the 5th of 2010, bergdahl was observed at a bazaar in north waziristan and was said to be not tightly controlled by his captors. guess what, 1
we have new details of u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl s disappearance that the pentagon has not released. wikileaks obtained a classified report and cnn s brian todd s been combing through it. take a look at this. reporter: a dramatic message in the early morning hours june 30th, 2009. soldier is missing. it s apparently the first report of sergeant bowe bergdahl s disappearance. that report is classified, but we know what it says because it s among thousands of leaked military documents posted by wikileaks chronicling the hours and days right after bergdahl vanished in afghanistan. the reports offer two contrasting pictures of what might have happened that day. about 5 1/2 hours after he disappeared u.s. soldiers intercept a radio communication, presumably by the taliban. the translation, an american soldier is talking and is looking for someone who speaks english. indicates american soldier has camera. but a day later another communication from the taliban indicating they ve pi