Sergeant Bergdahl is a Traitor because 'he read too much and didn’t drink enough beer'

[MADem]

34. A good lawyer can make that disappear. Even a bad lawyer can.

Even a non-lawyer can do something with the trove of material he provided.

He was acting oddly in the days leading up to his departure. It can be--and will be, I'll bet--argued that the balance of his mind was disturbed, that he was mentally ill when he enlisted, that his condition was missed at MEPS and in boot camp, etc.

This kid never had to do ANYTHING. Never went to school, if he got sick of doing something, he just quit and did something else. Never had to stick with anything.

Bowe's behavior, too, seemed odd at times. Fry remembers hearing "all kinds of crazy stories about him." He often came across more like a boy on an adventure than a soldier preparing for war. "My buddy was on an op, pulling guard duty," says Fry, recalling a joke that Bowe played. "Bergdahl was sneaking up on him like he was practicing techniques for the Battle of Wanat, on the other side." The U.S. base at Wanat, a remote village in Afghanistan, had been overrun by the Taliban four months earlier, leaving nine Americans dead and 27 wounded. It was one of the most deadly battles since the start of the war.

....It was also a disappointment to Bowe. He had entered the Army for the adventure, as a substitute for the French Foreign Legion, and here he was, shackled to a bunch of goof-offs. Bowe told Fry he didn't think the other soldiers in the unit were competent to fight. "He wanted to be a mercenary, wanted to be a free gun," says Fry. "He had a notion he was a survivalist, claimed he knew how to survive with nothing because he grew up in Idaho. He had stories of him doing crazy shit out in the woods for weeks in Idaho."

And mitigating those comments:

"Release me, please!" Bowe screams at the camera. "I'm begging you – bring me home!"

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-prisoner-of-war-20120607#ixzz33adeqEqL

An idiot lawyer could do something with that. Read the whole piece, it's illuminating. He's Peter Pan, immature, a fantasist--not quite the full quid. A few peas missing from the pod.

If his enlistment was in error, because he wasn't suited for service, a LOT can just "go away." That's the tack I'd start with, if I were helping him duck this heat.