The Inhumane Conditions of Bradley Manning’s Detention

[Carsten Wiethoff]

From http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/04...hat-trial/

OBAMA: So people can have philosophical views [about Bradley Manning] but I can't conduct diplomacy on an open source [basis]… That's not how the world works.
And if you're in the military… And I have to abide by certain rules of classified information. If I were to release material I weren't allowed to, I'd be breaking the law.
We're a nation of laws! We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.
[Q: Didn't he release evidence of war crimes?]
OBAMA: What he did was he dumped…
[Q: Isn't that just the same thing as what Daniel Ellsberg did?]
OBAMA: No it wasn't the same thing. Ellsberg's material wasn't classified in the same way.

Constitutional Scholars aren't any more what they used to be... :mad:
Reminds me to similar pre-convictions in the Khalid Sheikh Mohamed case. Maybe Obama intends to make it impossible to hold a civil trial and go for a military tribunal instead. Just guessing...