Allahpundit overstates that case, IMO, but still they don't seem to have thought any of this through.

Who is charge of this? Who set the schedule? Who decided to have Rice say that Bergdahl seved "with honor and distinction" when clearly it was possible to know that wasn't true? Who put POTUS in the Rose Garden with the parents, when this could ahve easily be shoved off onto the Pentagon and the Army? Why didn't they realize that Bergdahl is going to have to face a court martial?

Indeed, why isn't he in the stockade?

This is just rank amatuerism, an entirely unforced error.