Results delayed in probe of POW Bergdahl

An Army general investigating the circumstances leading to the capture of former U.S. prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl by the Taliban will need several more weeks to complete a final report, a military spokesman said Friday.

Bergdahl spent five years in captivity before being released in May in a controversial exchange for five Taliban prisoners from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.

Some of Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers have charged he had deserted in 2009 when he walked away from his combat outpost in Afghanistan under unclear circumstances and was later captured.

Major General Kenneth Dahl had 60 days from his June 16 appointment to determine if Bergdahl broke any military regulations or laws. from his time at the U.S. Army War College.

Curtis, a first-term representative from Butte, now faces the challenge of introducing herself to Montana voters and making her case for them to choose her over well-known and well-funded Republican Rep. Steve Daines with less than three months until the Nov. 4 elections. than the rest of the heavily Democratic state, which held primary elections on Aug. 9, two days after portions of the archipelago were hit by Tropical Storm Iselle.

Voting in two precincts of the Puna district had been postponed due to road damage.