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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
12. In reply #1, you wrote:
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 03:44 PM
Dec 2012
He was reportedly held incommunicado for more than 900 days, and held incommunicado for an extended period of time without a trial.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021936364


Following that DU link, we find your DU OP from today:

AnotherMcIntosh (4,577 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:10 AM
Is the Constitution "just a piece of paper"?

... How does the reported military holding of Manning incommunicado for more than 900 days, without a trial, compare with the number of days that it has held any other prisoner incommunicado? And under the conditions which Manning was held?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33224.htm ...


Following the Information Clearing House link in your OP, we land at

Bradley Manning: A Window Into The American Soul
By Paul Craig Roberts
December 05, 2012 "Information Clearing House"
... It has cost Manning 900 days held incommunicado illegally by the US government ...


But Paul Craig Roberts says nothing to support his false "900 days held incommunicado" claim

Yet, it is amazing! Upthread you pointed me to a DU OP you made earlier today, in which you link to a Paul Craig Roberts column written yesterday to support your "held incommunicado for more than 900 days" claim -- and then you have the gall to say I've never heard of Paul Craig Roberts before
WikiLeaks hearing focuses on brig commander [View all] struggle4progress Dec 2012 OP
It's not just that Manning was kept on suicide watch. Or that he as kept on suicide watch for AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #1
Really? Manning was held "incommunicado"? Really? struggle4progress Dec 2012 #2
Did someone from the House of Representatives visit him? AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #3
in·com·mu·ni·ca·do adv. & adj. Without the means or right of communicating with others struggle4progress Dec 2012 #6
Paul Craig Roberts is an Alex Jones favorite, isn't he? struggle4progress Dec 2012 #4
Under the even-broken-clocks-can-be-right-twice-a-day theory, I look for facts and don't make AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #5
Your claim, that Manning has been held incommunicado, traces struggle4progress Dec 2012 #8
"traces back to Paul Craig Roberts"? Interesting, if true. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #10
In reply #1, you wrote: struggle4progress Dec 2012 #12
I have never heard of him before. Today is the first day. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #13
pbbfth struggle4progress Dec 2012 #15
Yea, well there's a different between AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #18
Incidentally, the hundreds of law professors who signed the letter, while agreeing that AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #7
I remember discussing that letter at DU when it first appeared struggle4progress Dec 2012 #9
Actually, the link that I provided before you did leads to the page with the update: AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #11
Here's the original 16 March 2011 discussion of the Ackerman petition struggle4progress Dec 2012 #14
Was their update made on "Tuesday, March 15, 2011"? AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #17
Nope. It was made somewhat after the DU thread of 16 March 2011 but struggle4progress Dec 2012 #20
Quantico brig commander: confinement regs 'vague' struggle4progress Dec 2012 #16
meanwhile our politicians murder civilians women & kids with impunity using drones nt msongs Dec 2012 #19
Shh. We're not supposed to notice. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #21
Marine Officer Concedes Rules Broken In Bradley Manning's Confinement struggle4progress Dec 2012 #22
Marine brig officials grilled about Bradley Manning's jailing struggle4progress Dec 2012 #23
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