Bradley Manning is the American soldier accused of providing material to Wikileaks. He has been held in solitary confinement, required to sleep naked (ostensibly because he was suicidal), and treated much like Dick Cheney would have treated prisoners.
He has now been moved to Leavenworth, and presumably he will be treated in a humane and reasonable way, although Amnesty International will be monitoring his condition.
President Obama, it is said, is trying to mollify the left, which has been critical of some of the administration policies. The treatment of Mr. Manning is exhibit A. That was not what I was expecting when I spent hundreds of hours to get Mr. Obama elected. I will work for him again, especially in light of his opposition, but it won’t be with the same degree of hope and enthusiasm.
Note: Linda, aka “thorn in Barletta’s side,” was featured last night on Rachael Maddow’s show on MSNBC.
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