{"id":53955,"date":"2014-07-16T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53955"},"modified":"2014-07-16T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:53:20","slug":"bergdahl-hires-lawyer-fidell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53955","title":{"rendered":"Bergdahl hires lawyer Fidell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=53956\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eugene_fidell.jpg\" alt=\"eugene_fidell\" width=\"143\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53956\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2014\/0715\/Bowe-Bergdahl-hires-lawyer-investigators-to-question-him-in-near-future\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a>, Sergeant Bergdahl has hired a Yale Law School teacher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.yale.edu\/faculty\/EFidell.htm\">Eugene Fidell<\/a>, to represent him in the upcoming investigation of his five years spent as a prisoner of the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Fidell has been a full-time lecturer at Yale for the past five years, and he served in the US Coast Guard. He is the co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimjblog.org\/\">National Institute of Military Justice<\/a> and heads the committee on military justice for the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War.<\/p>\n<p>While investigators have not yet spoken with Bergdahl, that is expected to happen \u201csometime in the near future,\u201d says Wayne Hall, a spokesman for the Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fidell has been a critic of the government&#8217;s Guantanamo policy, if you couldn&#8217;t tell by his bowtie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Christian Science Monitor, Sergeant Bergdahl has hired a Yale Law School teacher, Eugene &hellip; <a title=\"Bergdahl hires lawyer Fidell\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53955\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bergdahl hires lawyer Fidell<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}