as regards snowden's emails, he is unlikely to have copies of them and the nsa won't share the ones which are inconvenient to their case against him.
That seems kind of odd, doesn't it? To go to the effort to pilfer "hundreds of thousands" of documents, but not to keep your own attempted internal "whistle blowing" writings? Especially when you know that once you make the pilfered docs public, you are going to be vilified (and worse)?
re: Bergdahl - I wasn't in the military, so I don't know how to extricate oneself from a war he becomes morally opposed to. But surely one could get himself thrown in the brig and dishonorably discharged without deserting and walking over to the enemy?