21-01-2011, 04:49 AM
Newsweek
(once the weekly of the dominant Washington Wurlitzer :wirlitzer:now owned for the cost of $1 by "stereo magnate" Sidney Harman -- who is connected to as Business Executives for National Security as well as Jane (California Senator who chaired the House Intelligence Committee and still chairs the Intelligence Subcommittee at the Committee on Homeland Security)
weighs in on the Wheeler case:
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/15/j...am-demons.html
"... Friends say Wheeler has acknowledged having bipolar disorder as well as Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that sometimes caused him to misread social cues and situations.
He also told friends that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that he was convinced that some of his problems were related to exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. While Wheeler was never a combat soldier, (he was a member of the general staff at the U.S. Army's headquarters in Long Binh, Vietnam from 1969 to 1970), friends say that someone as sensitive as Wheeler may have been particularly vulnerable to a war zone's after-effects. "I think some of his problems were genetic but were exacerbated by his wartime service," one friend said....."
This article originally appeared on The Daily Beast.
(once the weekly of the dominant Washington Wurlitzer :wirlitzer:now owned for the cost of $1 by "stereo magnate" Sidney Harman -- who is connected to as Business Executives for National Security as well as Jane (California Senator who chaired the House Intelligence Committee and still chairs the Intelligence Subcommittee at the Committee on Homeland Security)
weighs in on the Wheeler case:
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/15/j...am-demons.html
"... Friends say Wheeler has acknowledged having bipolar disorder as well as Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that sometimes caused him to misread social cues and situations.
He also told friends that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that he was convinced that some of his problems were related to exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. While Wheeler was never a combat soldier, (he was a member of the general staff at the U.S. Army's headquarters in Long Binh, Vietnam from 1969 to 1970), friends say that someone as sensitive as Wheeler may have been particularly vulnerable to a war zone's after-effects. "I think some of his problems were genetic but were exacerbated by his wartime service," one friend said....."
This article originally appeared on The Daily Beast.
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