I read elsewhere that he’s not even a big cheese. It’s purely to dampen criticism of Hillary and Obama.
In my mind, he’s a first LT, possibly a Captain, commanding the platoon making the assault on the consulate.
His value if any, will be divulging the name of his commanders
Since there is a denial of war, the lawyers can not grasp the military chain of command concept and will blow it. The victory is that someone was captured and he was not sent to Gitmo.
That’s really all that matters to the pacifist wackos running the country