five years before being held after a p controversial prisoner swap planning on abandoning his post for week. he mailed home his kindle and lap top before disappearing and even tried to have his pay diverted to his god mother. he testified that will the act put all of them in harm s way. he walked away. ambushes went up exponentially. ied s. a lot more ied s. we got hit by more. automatic oo even as he faces life in prison his attorney is trying to play down the significance of the hearings. there s a fair amount of misinformation about this proceeding. people have compared it to the grand jury. it s a poor analogy.