San Antonio: Accused US Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years, said in a podcast launched on Thursday that he left his post in Afghanistan to draw attention to "leadership failure" in his unit. Bergdahl's first public comments since he was released by the Taliban in a prisoner swap that ignited a political firestorm are part of a series of interviews with filmmaker Mark Boal, writer of military-themed movies The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. "What I was seeing from my first unit all the way up into Afghanistan, all I was seeing...
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