There are no deep pockets here.
I’d ask for just enough to keep him in poverty his whole life.
A class action civil suit against Bergdahl and DOD would be interesting.
“Any employee” in the tort claims act would be bergdahl.
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Enacted on August 2, 1946, the Federal Tort Claims Act provides a limited waiver of the United States’ immunity from suit, allowing claims for damages
for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred
28 U.S.C. § 1346(b).
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And bergdahl already plead guilty