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There has been no definitive report, just a lot of innuendo. Truthfully the public doesn’t know what happened.
I think it was short-sighted and tactically weak to try and make a hero out of the young man in this media climate.
I suspect a message of, ‘we don’t leave anyone behind,’ would have played better.
I am -for the record- in favor of the swap which returned him. (Um, we don’t leave anyone behind? And seriously, would we have applied these standards to AWOL/POW soldiers in Vietnam? I hope to gawd not!)