Manning's Abuse Reveals US Hypocrisy

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By Kevin Zeese
March 9, 2011

Editor’s Note: President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top U.S. officials lecture world leaders on the need to respect the free flow of information as vital to democracy.

In other countries, brave whistleblowers are heroes, but in the United States, when Pvt. Bradley Manning allegedly exposed crimes and misconduct on a global scale, he was subjected to humiliation and punishment that would make many police states blush, as Kevin Zeese discusses in this guest essay:

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030911c.html


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GITMO is right here...always has been.


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[inademv]

1. I guess we're Iran now n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. K and R This isn't a close call. He's a political prisoner.

Period.

[glinda]

3. Well today we look even more corrupt.

[midnight]

4. Held in confinement for nine months before charges... Nothing

regular about this situation....