' Wrote:Bradley Manning... has been detained... under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture.

(12-15-2010 05:58 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  I'm calling BS on this all by itself.

(12-15-2010 07:16 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(12-15-2010 05:58 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  I'm calling BS on this all by itself.

Me too. We have lawyers screaming about the terrorists at Gitmo and not a single lawyer has spoken out about Manning. Instead, the first I hear of it is on this board and through a link I can't open. I'm sure if he was being mistreated the ACLU would be all over it.

Anyway, he turned on the military and the country....if any of this is true then all I can say is what did he expect if he got caught, a parade in his honor?

(12-15-2010 10:53 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote:  I'm still not sure why/how he had access to this information.

(12-15-2010 11:08 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(12-15-2010 10:53 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote:  I'm still not sure why/how he had access to this information.

Manning had access to SIPRNET while he was an Intelligence Analyst in Iraq.

(12-16-2010 12:07 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(12-15-2010 11:08 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(12-15-2010 10:53 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote:  I'm still not sure why/how he had access to this information.

Manning had access to SIPRNET while he was an Intelligence Analyst in Iraq.

Having access to SIPRNET means nothing. I have access to both, but all sites are still access restricted. Just because someone has access to SIPRNET doesn't mean they have access to everything happening on SIPRNET. MOST SIPRNET communications come in the form of transactions.

(12-15-2010 03:51 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Put him in with the rest of the prisoners in the Brig, and the little worm would last about 15 seconds.

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems. He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.

From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything. And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig's medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/index.html

(12-16-2010 07:56 PM)The WEST is the BEST Wrote:  

(12-15-2010 03:51 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Put him in with the rest of the prisoners in the Brig, and the little worm would last about 15 seconds.

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems. He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.

From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything. And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig's medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/index.html

Do you believe anything printed by Salon? The "Bible" of the Lunatic Left.
They think this guy is a hero. I have total faith that our military is treating properly under military laws/protocal.