US District Judge Reggie B. Walton found that the military judge who had ordered the dishonorable discharge had failed to disclose that he had applied to be an immigration judge a job within the executive branch during the Trump administration in a possible conflict of interest . The former soldier was convicted of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in . He was released in in a controversial exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees in October facing the possibility of life in prison . ThenPresident Donald Trump criticized the decision on Twitter in calling it a ‘complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military’ The former soldiers rank was reduced from sergeant to private and he was also ordered to pay from his salary . Walton found a reasonable person could doubt the judges ability to remain neutral . He has said he was tortured and beaten during his fiveyear captivity by the Taliban until May and has said that he was beaten and tortured during his 5year captivity . He said he has also said he would be completely isolated and told he was told he would never see his family again after he was released from his five years of captivity by his five-year captivity in 2009 and that he would not be allowed to go back to his base in Afghanistan . He pleaded guilty in October and pleaded guilty to pleading guilty to desertion in October but was sentenced to a lesser charge of misbehaving before the Taliban in 2009. He has been convicted of misbehavior by the military. He was sentenced in October. He said that the case. He had been sentenced to two years in prison. He will not be sentenced to three years. He is now back to prison. The case. The judge has been ordered to serve a maximum of six months of probation. He faces a
Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction and dishonorable discharge vacated by military . Bowe
