Politicians Scramble to Delete Pro-Bergdahl Tweets as Backlash Grows

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Politicians Scramble to Delete Pro-Bergdahl Tweets as Backlash Grows
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At least six politicians have **w deleted tweets they sent about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl

All of them sent tweets offering initial praise of Bergdahl's release, only to later backtrack and pull the posts off the web. But thanks to Politwoops, a website from the Sunlight Foundation, the Internet never forgets

See also: Taliban Release Video Showing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Handover to U.S. (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/taliban-video-bowe-bergdahl-release/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


They include four Republican members of Congress, one Democrat and the Republican state senator who won Iowa’s five-way Senate primary on Tuesday night. That's two more than the four Mashable reported (http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/republicans-delete-bowe-bergdahl-praise/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on Tuesday.

See who's scrambling to run from the spreading Bergdahl backlash. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/04/politicians-delete-bowe-bergdahl-tweets/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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