Reporter to W.H.: If Bergdahl’s Not a Deserter, Why Wasn’t He Invited to SOTU?

NN REPORTER: "Thanks, Josh. The Army concluded its investigation into Bowe Bergdahl's disappearance several months ago. When is that report coming out?"
EARNEST: "That's a question that you should direct to the Department of Defense. They can give you a sense of the status of that negotiation -- the status of that investigation. That's obviously an independent investigation that is being conducted by the United States Army so I don't have any insight into the status of it."
NN REPORTER: "On a related tough, if it's patently false that they are going to charge him with desertion, why was he not at the State of the Union? Alan Gross was at the State of the Union, he was someone else who was in a prison for five years and released in the prisoners swap. So why was Bowe Bergdahl not at the State of the Union?"
EARNEST: "Well, I think what my colleague over at the Pentagon said was patently false was that the Army or that the Army investigator had made a decision about this case. It's my understanding, again, according to the comments from my colleague over at the Pentagon, who said that that investigation is still ongoing. So when they have an update in terms of that status then it will come from them not from us."