"The man who taught President Obama constitutional law is now accusing him of violating it in his own administration. Laurence Tribe, who was one of Obama's professors at Harvard and served as a Justice Department legal adviser until last December, has signed onto a letter with over 250 other legal scholars assailing the Obama administration for its treatment of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of divulging classified documents to Wikileaks.
The letter says the sum of his conditions are "a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against punishment without trial." Manning was arrested in May 2010 but he has not yet been tried for any crime."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/the_man_who_taught_president.php?ref=fpb As usual, I would like to hear what excuses Obama's fans have for why all these legal scholars are wrong.
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