Sergeant Bergdahl Gets No Prison Time, And Other Stories

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, will get a dishonorable discharge and a reduced rank, but the time he will spend in prison will be zero.  That's right, no time whatsoever, as in zilch, zip, nada, nichts, and niczego.  Perhaps someone decided that the time Bergdahl spent as a captive of the Taliban was enough punishment.  (Anyone wishing to comment, please feel free to add the word "nothing" or "none" in the language of your choice.)

Read more at NBC News, USA Today, CBS News, CNN and Fox News.

With some reaction:

From Politico, President Trump is not pleased.

From the New York Post, the troops who were wounded while searching for the deserter aren't getting off so easily.

From Twitchy, a Wounded Warrior calls Bergdahl's sentence (or lack thereof, you could say) a "travesty".

In other stories:

From Breitbart Texas, four American soldiers are sentenced for supplying assault rifles to a Mexican cartel.

From Breitbart London, the Hungarian foreign minister asks what I would call a very good question.

From Philly(dot)com, Philadelphia will remove a statue which has nothing to do with the Confederacy.

From Townhall, there are two problems with the new House GOP tax bill.

From Reuters, three GOP House members want Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign.

From the Military Times, files released by the CIA appear to support the claim that Iran supported al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks.

From The Daily Signal, the Senate confirms five of the president's judicial nominees.  (Doing their job.  What a concept!)

From Eurasia Review, there about 895,000 cases of cholera in Yemen.  (via The American Conservative)

From Space War, American B-1B bombers fly over Korea.

From Life News, a legislator in Ohio says women have the right to abort babies with Down syndrome.

From Voice Of Europe, Dutch legislator Geert Wilders calls for a demonstration against Islamization.

From Euractiv, Austria cracks down on illegal aliens and refugees.

From WestMonster, there are 520,000 illegal aliens "living under the radar" in Germany.  (They cite the German site Welt.)

From the Express, with the United Kingdom leaving, Germany will pay more to support the E.U.

From Russia Today, a fire breaks out in Moscow's Pushkin Museum.

From The Local SE, a nightclub in Malmö, Sweden is damaged by an explosion.

From The Telegraph, a British MP is suspended over an accusation of sexual harassment.  (via Sputnik International)

From Flanders News, a suspected terrorist wanted by Belgium is arrested in Morocco.

From the Daily Record, four Kurds who had entered the United Kingdom illegally are sentenced for their "grooming gang" activities.

And from the Chicago Tribune, an armed assailant who tried to rob a wiener stand shot himself in what you might call an ironic place.  (via the New York Post)