Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
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June 2, 2014
Deserter Exchanged for Crack Talaban Leaders?
Now the nation is learning that members of his own unit have been telling everyone who'd listen that U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier released from captivity the other day in exchange for those five hardcore Taliban higher-ups , was taken by the enemy after intentionally deserting his post during guard duty, intentional because he'd 1) asked his team leader what military equipment to leave behind if he did so and clearly took that leader's advice, and 2) already spoken of a desire to flee Afghanistan for Pakistan or India.
Is this really true? And how come we're just finding out about it now - after the exchange has been made?
Sure smells treasonable to us.