Politico’s Roger Simon Slams Bergdahl Detractors as Stressed-Out Soldiers

Politico's Simon Disses Bergdahl Detractors as Stressed-Out Soldiers (NewsBusters)

Responding to the evolving Taliban prisoner-swap story, Politico’s Roger Simon suggested on MSNBC’s NewsNation program that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers had faulty memories on the details of Bergdahl’s disappearance and that we should not “take as absolute legal fact five-year old memories from people who served with Bergdahl under circumstances of great stress.”

In further defending President Obama’s five-for-one prisoner swap, the liberal columnist insisted  there would be “little public appetite” for the wheels of military justice to grind through an investigation and possible court martial for Bergdahl. Fortunately for viewers, host Tamron Hall also had NBC military analyst Barry McCaffrey on at the same time to offer his rebuttal. The former Clinton administration drug czar strongly beat back the notion that this had anything to do with the memories of his comrades