Does this qualify as cruel and unusual?

[Playinghardball]

[Pelican]

1. Not in the slightest...

It's an insult to people who have had to endure real torture

[NaturalHigh]

2. He HAS NOT been in solitary confinement for over three years...

although I believe he was for several months at Quantico.

[geek tragedy]

3. no kthxbai nt

[pnwmom]

4. That kid grew up to enroll in the Army, took an oath to protect his country,

got a job taking care of classified documents, and then handed over 251,000 diplomatic cables to a foreign national who then published them without redacting the names of human rights activists and allies who were helping us in repressive countries.

Yes he exposed some serious war crimes. But the release of 251,000 unredacted cables was an entirely separate and unjustified act -- and why they should throw the book at him.

[loli phabay]

5. this is all that matters in the end.