all publicity is NOT good publicity

Well maybe the USMC decided the case might not go their way. Every case is different. Ehren Watada made a stink because Iraq was a totally bogus incursion and he had the balls to say so. Entertainers, including conservative commentators, clearly act according to the old PR saying that "all publicity is good". But I wonder if the Military have concluded that "making examples" of persons in uniform who resist an immoral war has reached the point that it will backfire.