You are saying pretty much what I said in my longer post.  To put it in the vernacular, the local command of that brig and her higher ups are doing it by the numbers.  Anything that Bradley or anyone in a similar position has said or done is scrutinized with the eye toward "what will happen or be said if something goes wrong" and the higher ups (and lawyers) come back and see this tiny iota of information and then ask "why didn't you act?" THEY all know that if something bad happens to Bradley, then as a practical matter the least thing that will happen to them is that their careers are over.

I gave my own example of the sailor on suicide watch.  He basically had bad news from home and tried to kill himself with a drug overdose.  Found out that he had been using badly for a month or two because of his problems at home and then just decided to go all the way.

He was found and cleaned out as best could be done with our limited means, but he was very resistive and combative, and as said in the old Navy lingo, very "able bodied."  He was also smart.  How do I know this?  Well he worked for me in the engine room back when I was a young guy.  Once this happened though the Captain took over completely.

The man was bound in some very soft restraints but so completely you might say as a practical matter he was "hogtied" and placed on a smaller faster escort vessel.  They decided not to sedate him because of the crap in his system so the command assigned two sailors to be with him at all times and eventually had each of them keep a hand on an arm watching for any kind of activity or inactivity.  If one had to leave for any reason, a replacement was called.  A medic was also present or immediately available.  (I think now days, they have better kinds of first responder treatment.)

The escort vessel was diverted to enable a faster pickup by air with a specialist. Our commanders decided that with the exception of turning the group around they would do everything that they could to keep that sailor from dying by his own hand on board one of "their" vessels.  Or again in the vernacular, "on their watch."

I was left back on my ship hovering like a frantic mother bird praying that the man would get to shore and live, probably for my own sake more than his, trying to think of what to say when and if I was asked "Why the hell didn't you notice something and do something?"  I also didn't want to have to write a letter to his mother.

Bradley is safer right now than a babe in his mother's arms, but no he isn't very comfortable, and if he is smart enough to get all those files, then he is smart enough to know what would happen if he wised off like he did and in the way he did.  The question is whether he has the habit of thinking before he acts.  I think from what he is alleged to have done that he doesn't think things through very much.

As for your Col friend, MT, I understand completely.  Later on I had tremendous responsibility and though I wasn't personally involved in every repair or refit or build or rebuild or or purchase or change project or duty assignment and despite what the lower ranks thought about the blame being placed on them, the blame always eventually rises and falls on the commander.  I chose to retire after 31 years though I loved the work and especially (yeah, call me crazy) being at sea, because I spent so much time and worry trying to cover everyone's a** including my own.

Now I do the same thing for a lot more pay with much less hours and deal with more reasonable bosses and on jobs I choose.  

As for the sailor who though he didn't have anything to live for, he did live and he remarried a young religious lady.  He was actually a good man who just got involved with one of those evil hearted women that Johnny Cash used to sing about.
Lost track after that.