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Before we get on with episode two, some news.

A few days ago, the Army announced

that it will take Bo Bergdahl's charges to court-martial,

to trial, basically.

He's charged with two crimes,

desertion and something called misbehavior before the enemy.

That second one, it's not used very often. It carries the possibility of a life sentence,

which doesn't seem likely that would happen. That'd be so extreme. But it does mean Boe could

face some amount of prison time if he's convicted. The Army's decision to go to court-martial, it's not that it's so

surprising. I mean, this is always a strong possibility. It's just that for a lot of people watching

Bo's case, it's been hard to handicap. All outward signs have pointed to an army that is of two

minds about how to deal with what Bo did, whether to throw the book at him, or whether to say,

okay, yes, he screwed up in a huge way, but five years with the Taliban, enough is enough.

On the one hand, the army leveled pretty severe charges against Bo.

But then at a military hearing in September, the two-star general in charge of investigating Bo's case,

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