For sure. Anybody in the know, and that means you Boehner, could have leaked the story, created a firestorm, forcing the WH to deny it and probably dooming the deal.
Apparently none of our Congressional Drunks and Alzheimer's patients were up to speed on exactly who Bergdahl was. Of course, all of these ani are wiped by very Left-Wing staffs, even ...gasp ... the Republicans ... staff who are anti-military for the most part and who either didn't know, or thought the guy's open military record was a minor matter.
This blew wide open only after members of Bergdahl's old unit blew the whistle on the Internet. The Demos and RINO Enabler Corps thought that the fuss would come over the released Gitmo Muzzies. True enough, but that was much less than half the story. The outrage over this deserter and traitor caught'em with their pants down.
The mad scramble to get on the "right" side of the story is pathetic, especially in The Drunk Boner's Case. McLame? .... one hopes that by now everyone outside of AZ knows he's an idiot (and mean drunk), like the other senile but hopefully sober Senator Feinstein who also wrong-footed this one.
And ... could be Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing. The tattooed fatties in the Wal-Mart parking lot might not get it at all.