the taliban very early on know they ve gotten a gold mine with bowe bergdahl and tried to bargain with him. top-secret reports also show how confusing the situation was on the morning bergdahl vanished. 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 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 picked up bergdahl in a latrine.
jay carney. bergdahl s capture. it hasn t been determined yet whether he was a deserter. sergeant bergdahl was in captivity for five years, held against his will and it was absolutely the right thing to do consistent with our tradition in the united states to secure his return. the defense department will in terms of evaluating all of the circumstances surrounding his initial detention and his captivity. so carney kind of dodged the question. joining us from boston fox news military analyst colonel david hunt. so i know you won t dodge the question. was sergeant bergdahl a deserter? yeah. he was. bergdahl on june 30th, 2009, crawled underneath the wire in his fire base with water, food, change of clothes, a knife, and a cell phone.
he was under strict orders not to talk about him. reporter: bowe bergdahl enlisted in the army in 2008. the next year he was deployed to afghanistan. then on june 30th, 2009, officials say bergdahl was captured. the details into exactly how that happened remain murky. some soldiers who served in his platoon say he deserted, he just walked off the combat outpost in a remote region of afghanistan. for nearly five years bowe bergdahl remained a prisoner of war believed to be held by members of a network affiliated with the al qaeda. his captures released videos of the soldier. first in 2009. it s unclear whether his remarks were scripted by his captors. scared i won t be able to go home. reporter: bergdahl s father spoke out publicly about his son on may 6, 2011 releasing a video
on june 30th, 2009. he left a note behind saying he had grown disillusioned with the war and packed up a back pack and did not take his body armor or weapons which is extraordinary. this is from a former senior military commander, very good source. the pentagon has not said officially what happened to him these days but of course the initial reports from the military, american military were that he had walked off his post back in 2009, which is how we reported it. then there was some there was after that bowe bergdahl said himself in a video he lagged behind on a patrol. the pentagon is not saying anything about how he disappeared they are waiting to ask him himself when he s ready. let me ask you also about the circumstances of his recruitment. he comes from idaho, home schooled and family didn t have a television and lots and lots of books.
jay carney. bergdahl s capture. it hasn t been determined yet whether he was a deserter. sergeant bergdahl was in captivity for five years, held against his will and it was absolutely the right thing to do consistent with our tradition in the united states to secure his return. the defense department will in terms of evaluating all of the circumstances surrounding his initial detention and his captivity. so carney kind of dodged the question. joining us from boston fox news military analyst colonel david hunt. so i know you won t dodge the question. was sergeant bergdahl a deserter? yeah. he was. bergdahl on june 30th, 2009, crawled underneath the wire in his fire base with water, food, change of clothes, a knife, and a cell phone.