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In reply to the discussion: "I'm sorry that I hurt the United States" Bradley Manning apologizes in court [View all]struggle4progress
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The OP notes that Manning today apologized
in reply, derby378 suggested that Manning had been tortured and that the apology was coerced
Of course, if Manning had been tortured, it would be his lawyer's responsibility to raise that fact. But AFAIK, Coombs has never claimed Manning was tortured. So I asked, why hasn't he raised it?
It seems a reasonable question to me, and the answer might be informative
For example, perhaps Coombs has never claimed Manning was tortured because (in fact) Manning was never tortured; or perhaps because CIA death-squads warned Coombs that if he said anything about Manning being tortured, they would dissolve his granny in acid; or perhaps because Coombs, as a member of the Illuminati, has dedicated his life to conspiring against fair trials for defendants; or perhaps because Coombs becomes so anxious at the word "torture" that he immediately tries to calm himself with several hours of sexting strangers on the internet; or ...
derby378 might have responded in many possible different ways, some of which could have been informative