Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Manning's treatment & POTUS says, "Procedures Appropriate"

[KoKo]

Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Manning's treatment


UPDATE V: At a Press Conference just now, ABC News' Jake Tapper asked President Obama about Crowley's comments and Obama replied:

With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are. I can't go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning's safety as well.

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Oh, that's very reassuring -- and such a very thorough and diligent effort by the President to ensure that detainees under his command aren't being abused. He asked the Pentagon and they said everything was great -- what more is there to know? Everyone knows that on questions of whether the military is abusing detainees, the authoritative source is . . . the military. You just ask them if they're doing anything improper, and once they tell you that they're not, that's the end of the matter.

I have no doubt that George Bush asked the DoD whether everything was being run professionally at Guantanamo and they assured him that they were. Perhaps the reason there haven't been any Wall Street prosecutions is because Obama asked Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein if there was any fraud and those banking executives assured the President that there wasn't.

http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/03/10/amnesty

[saras]

1. But he's not being tortured unless they use genuine Spanish Inquisition tools

[KoKo]

2. Kick for the Night Crowd..after kiddies are in bed...and you just gotta have INFO!

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