Bergdahl Can be Questioned About Capture Next Week
Freed U.S. prisoner-of-war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl can meet the U.S. Army general, who is probing into the circumstances that led to his capture by the Taliban in June 2009, next week, Bergdahl's attorney said Tuesday.
Attorney Eugene Fidell told CNN that e will know for sure exactly next week when the meeting will take place. Even though they have been introduced before, it will be the first questioning session between Bergdahl and investigating officer Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl.
"They've said hello to one another. It was literally a meeting to introduce themselves to one another," said Fidell, who is a military law expert and lectures at the Yale University.
Bergdahl is expected to be questioned next week in Texas, Fidell further said.
Bowe Bergdahl, 28, is an Army Sergeant who was released in May after five Taliban prisoners were transferred to Qatar from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, Reuters reports.
Post his release, critics raised questions if the Obama government paid too high a price; and whether it was Bergdahl himself who had deserted his war outpost in Afghanistan and which eventually led to his capture.
Such suspicions forced authorities to probe into the matter. The army has not found any sure answer as to whether Bergdahl acted upon his free will and left the outpost. A U.S. military official, talking to the soldier, told CNN that no definite finding has come to the fore because that would mean knowing his intent.
The freed prisoner is already done with counseling and a reintegration program. He has been assigned a desk job at a Texas military base, while the Army continues with its investigation of events that resulted in his five years of imprisonment by captors whom Bergdahl's attorney Fidell describes as "ruthless killers."
