Bergdahl Roommate: Chairman of Joint Chiefs Told Us Bowe Was A Deserter

Then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen admitted that Bowe Berghdal was a deserter, and said that he did not know why the military was focusing so much energy on trying to save him, according to one of Bergdahl’s platoon mates.

“The joint chief of staff, Admiral Mullen at the time. He came out to our unit and had Thanksgiving dinner, and he said, ‘Yeah he walked off, everybody knows he walked off, I don’t know why they’re trying to’” pretend that he didn’t, Bergdahl’s former infantry roommate Cody Full told The Daily Caller.

President Obama currently faces formal condemnation from Congress for illegally releasing five senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl, who left his post near Afghanistan’s Pakistan border in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network. The revelation that the military’s senior leader knew about Bergdahl’s desertion years in advance creates new questions about Obama’s conduct. Bergdahl recently returned to active duty with a desk job in San Antonio, Texas.

Bergdahl’s platoon searched for him at the expense of all other duties for more than two months, checking cars in an IED-strewn environment where villagers routinely hid the existence of anti-American insurgents.

“For us, we knew right away we were looking for him on our outpost, up to battalion level knew he had walked off,” Bergdahl platoon mate Matt Vierkant told TheDC, noting that a missing soldier alert was immediately sent out. “We knew he wasn’t taken, he walked off. Some children said he was crawling through the reeds.”

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