Bradley Manning Lawyer Details Prison Abuse
Insists Treatment 'Unlawful Pretrial Punishment'
Growing public concerns about the mistreatment of detainee Bradley Manning were confirmed today, when David E. Coombs, Manning’s lawyer, announced that he had filed a complaint with the Quantico brig accusing them of abusing Manning.
Manning, who is accused of being responsible for the WikiLeaks releases, was placed both under “maximum security” conditions and suicide watch. The details of Manning’s declining condition under these restrictions has been detailed in the past, and the UN is also said to be investigating.
Coombs insisted there was absolutely no legal reason for Manning’s classification, and that the treatment amounted to unlawful pretrial punishment, a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Quantico spokesmen insisted that Manning’s treatment was perfectly legal, and that he was placed in maximum security because of the threat to “national security.” They added that Manning was “being treated the same as anybody else” in the same classification, which probably wasn’t meant to sound nearly as ominous and unreassuring as it came off.
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wdgray
January 21st, 2011 at 9:40 pm
There is no justice in America anymore. All self serving sycophantics.
Chris
January 21st, 2011 at 10:11 pm
This guy was a fool for talking in the first place. He should have kept shut.
tony barker
January 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 am
Ithink he should feel lucky to be alive at all, didn't we used to hang traitors
liberal
January 22nd, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Except that he's not a traitor, you thug.
Rick
January 22nd, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Since Manning was the only one to up hold his oath to the constitution of all the people that had access to that material he is the real true American…
From Paul Craig Roberts at this blog “General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the National Press Club on February 17, 2006, “It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral” and to make such orders known. If Manning is the source of the leak, he has been wrongfully imprisoned for meeting his military responsibility. The media have yet to make the point that the person who reported the crime, not the persons who committed it, is the one who has been imprisoned, and without a trial.
gary
January 22nd, 2011 at 1:39 pm
yes hang all traitors…we are the light of humanity…the best country in history…repeat until believed
KSB29
January 22nd, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Once, I missed the chance to ask a very important question. I not repeat the same mistake.
I ask now. In your mind were the members of the July plot of 1944 nothing more than traitors to the state who dared undermine legal government authority and got everything they deserved?
After all, who were they to question or doubt the usefulness of insane wars launched by the state? They are nothing. They are but men. The state is eternal! How dare these traitors undermine the war effort!
Line them up! Shoot them all! Except Pollard, he's a hero because he served the protected class.
Doug_in_Indiana
January 22nd, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Quite right. You are an insightful student of history, so you might know 'we' also hanged petty thieves, witches, adulterers, pickpockets, and recalcitrant slaves. Wouldn't it be great if all of these could continue to be subject to justice?
Hans K
January 24th, 2011 at 5:43 am
The Nobel Peace Price 2011 to Bradley Manning!! He is a prisoner of concience and a true hero exposing a tyrannical regime of terror and war profiteering. To say he is a traitor is to turn reality upside down. The real traitors are the ones instigating these endless wars, brainwashing and robbing the hard working American and allied taxpayers while comitting unspeakable crimes against humanity and the environment.
http://www.causes.com/causes/547324-nobel-peace-p…