Maybe. But the documents make a pretty compelling case for mental illness, because they also indicate that he expected to talk to the President about freeing Kayla Mueller, and became unhinged after she died. Lopez&#x27;s grandiose claims about his connections to ISIS <i>were in fact fictional</i> --- it looks like he was being set up for an advance-fee scam.<p>None of this is meant to excuse the criminal mental health care system in the US, which is, I think, criminal.<p>I think it took over a year in Lopez&#x27;s case because pretty much nobody gives a shit about people in this system.