Glenn Greenwald: Obama's Comments on Bradley Manning - Democracy NOW!

[The Northerner]

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Democracy NOW! DN! - Military officials have announced alleged whistleblower U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, who is suspected of leaking classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks, has been cleared to be held as a medium security prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was just transferred. Up until last week, Manning was held in 23-hour a day solitary confinement at a Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia. His treatment at Quantico was condemned by Amnesty International and led to a probe by a torture expert at the United Nations. We speak to http://salon.com legal blogger and constitutional law attorney Glenn Greenwald, who revealed in December that Manning was being subjected to detention conditions likely to inflict long-term psychological injuries. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Democracy NOW!, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

[swilton]

1. Just heard this through the D/N link

Excellent analysis!

[bjobotts]

5. Yet it can be proven that Bush/Cheney lied us into a war of choice but Manning is worse?

[bjobotts]

6. Look at what they choose to ignore vs what they consider serious crimes.

[20score]

2. If the Bush administration treated Manning the way the Obama administration is, DU would, rightly,

be going ape-shit.

No excuse for this criminal action by our government. That includes Obama.

[2banon]

7. this is rather curious to me too.

if the guy we voted in does it (figuratively of course) then it's something that should be overlooked or simply ignored. I get why, but I still find it curious.

[goodnews]

3. IMO Manning's treatment is being used as a warning to other

would be whistleblowers: "This is what will happen to you!"
Very Bushie style coercion techniques.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Here's the podcast link

http://traffic.libsyn.com/democracynow/dn2011-0429-1.mp3