I don't think so, as there is no upside for Obama. Hillary, OTOH...
I just read a couple days ago that Obama is on track to have issued the
fewest presidential pardons in a hundred years. Only ones who issued fewer were Presidents like Washington, back in the days when there weren't enough federal convicts to pardon. Oh, and those who died in office early in their terms...
Per this:
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons-1789-present.html, Obama is sitting at 13 fewer than HW Bush. A single term president. He'd have to pardon 90 to match his per term pardon rate. Double checking, besides the first 2 presidents(again, how many convicts could they have?), the only presidents that Obama has pardoned more people than
died in office.
I sure hope BHO does not pardon Bergdahl and Bergdahl gets a fair trial and a first-rate hanging (should he be found guilty of crimes meriting death).
1. Hanging, I believe, is no longer an option under the UCMJ.
2. As bad as he was, nobody has been sentenced to death in a huge period of time under the UCMJ, I don't think Bergdahl was bad enough to break that trend. If we're going to break that trend, I think somebody who killed with their own hands would be a superior choice.
Both Article 85 (Desertion) and Article 99 (Misbehavior before the Enemy) are punishable by death during time of war.
Problem being that we haven't actually declared war since Korea...
So, my bet is that barring Obama completely reversing his present trend, expecting a pardon out of Obama is a fool's hope. He ain't pardoning anybody(relatively). Bergdahl isn't going to get a pardon, but isn't going to be sentenced to death. My blind dart toss is seven years, commuted with his time in captivity to "time served" so he spends basically no time in prison here in the USA. Given a dishonorable discharge, the military washes their hands of him.