article_snippet: The first Obama administration official to address desertion charges filed against U.S. Army Sgt.
article_snippet: their commander-in-chief wouldn't, however, comment on the criminal charges facing Bowe Bergdahl. '
article_snippet: The Obama administration's ransom deal has come under new fire as Bowe Bergdahl's criminal charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice were read yesterday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
article_snippet: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, a California Republican, said the charges of desertion and 'misbehavior before the enemy' were 'the exclamation point on The Obama administration's ransom deal.'
article_snippet: Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said Obamaendangered our national security and broke the law when Obama chose to negotiate with terrorists and release hardened enemy combatants from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt.
article_snippet: Bergdahl – who many believed at the time was a deserter.'
article_snippet: And Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe wrote in a scathing op-ed for Time magazine asking: 'Who will be held accountable for breaking the law regarding the release of prisoners from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
article_snippet: Bowe Bergdahl will face charges under articles 85 and 99 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice . '
article_snippet: In executing the transfer of five detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl, the president violated a law that requires the president to notify Congress 30 days before any transfer of terrorists from the detention facility,' Inhofe wrote, 'and to explain how the threat posed by terrorists has been substantially mitigated.' 'the president failure to adhere to a law the president signed places our nation’s security at great risk for the foreseeable future.'
article_snippet: Obama himself has not addressed the Bergdahl issue since Obama himself charges were read on Wednesday.
article_snippet: Before disappearing, Bergdahl had expressed misgivings about the U.S. role in the war – as well as his own.
article_snippet: Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy; the first carries up to five years in prison, the latter up to life.
article_snippet: Bergdahl, 28, won't face a death sentence, although the punishment is an option for prosecutors to pursue against deserters in wartime.
article_snippet: Bowe Bergdahl at Fort Bragg, NC on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, reading a one-page statement but not taking any questions .
article_snippet: Bowe Bergdahl's 'reintegration' when Obama himself returned to Fort Sam Houston in Texas suggests how difficult Obama himself life was in captivity.
article_snippet: However, the criminal charges facing Bergdahl underscore the military's position that the hardship of Obama himself captivity doesn't outweigh the ramifications of leaving his post.
article_snippet: Some members of Obama himself former unit have called for serious punishment, saying others risked others lives searching for Obama himself. '
article_snippet: In an interview Wednesday with MSNBC, Bergdahl's attorney, Eugene Fidell, claimed the major general who conducted an investigation of Bergdahl's case before the criminal charges facing Bergdahl were brought 'never mentioned' the misbehavior charge 'and I don't think the misbehavior charge had the misbehavior charge in mind, and I don't frankly know how the misbehavior charge got on the charge sheet.' '
highlights_snippet: Republicans hurled we-told-you-sos at the White House after Bergdahl was charged with desertion and 'misbehavior before the enemy'
  The Obama administration traded five high-value Taliban fighters for his safe return last year .