article_snippet.sent: Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (pictured)  said on Fox News ' '
article_snippet.sent: This is clearly just a stunt to build sympathy before sympathy go to trial,' said retired Sgt.
article_snippet.sent: No logical person would ever take the actions No logical person undertook for the reasons No logical person is now saying,' Vaughn told Daily Mail Online.
article_snippet.sent: No logical person said the claim broadcast by CNN is 'ridiculous,' and that Army's decision to charge Bergdahl with desertion is 'in direct conflict' with any claim that No logical person intended to be a whistle-blower.
article_snippet.sent: a Defense Department official needs to be held responsible for what a Defense Department official did, for abandoning a Defense Department official post, for abandoning a Defense Department official platoon, for putting thousands of American soldiers, Marines and the whole United States military, thousands of members, in more danger, putting us into spots us wouldn't already have been in, had a Defense Department official not walked away,' a Defense Department official said.
article_snippet.sent: Vaughn also noted that Vaughn decision 'cost the US multiple soldiers' lives, five Taliban POWs, and the incredible monetary expense of searching for Vaughn.'