@revelette2,
Apparently you found the very article I just provided a link to.
It had to be "an official criminal investigation?"
You are really going to great lengths to by-pass the evidence.
Fair enough, it now appears unlikely that the Pentagon will be able to avoid a further investigation of the matter, and there are reports that they are already interviewing the ex-servicemen who were at his base.
From all accounts so far it does seem that Bergdahl had the unfathomable notion that he could best provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan by joining the US Army and being sent there to fight the Taliban. Why he didn't first try to join a NGO working in the country is a mystery as is why he tried to join the French Foreign Legion. The French Legionnaires are hardly legendary for their humanitarian efforts. Maybe he watched reruns of that very old TV series starring Buster Crabbe.
It also appears that while Bergdahl enjoyed the "hearts & minds" assignments he received, he was not fond of the primary duties of a soldier. And the things he wrote to his father about the army and fellow soldiers are not the words of someone who simply regrets he joined because he learned he was a pacifist.
I'm sure that Bergdahl was a troubled young man who was living in an environment hardly conducive to developing a well-adjusted outlook on life, but according to his fellow soldiers (one of whom had at one time counted him his friend) he violated the spirit of brotherhood which is a crucial aid to these young men in making it home in one piece and less psychologically harmed then they might otherwise be. You can imagine how they felt knowing that they and others were risking their lives to find a soldier who had deserted them.
Apparently the Pentagon is refuting assertions that six soldiers were killed while searching for Bergdahl. They should be able to prove they are right. Let's see.
Does it give you cause to wonder why the military would send forces out to find and rescue Bergdahl early on; when they didn't know where he was, but then did not mount a rescue mission when "spies and intelligence signals" gave them his precise location?
Deserting did not justify his being left to rot in a Taliban prison, and, in point of fact he wasn't. It also didn't justify the fanfare the Administration tried to gin up for political purpose.