Ellsberg on Obama re. Manning: "he needs to get a grip...."

[Smarmie Doofus]

President Obama tells us that he's asked the Pentagon whether the conditions of confinement of Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking state secrets, "are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are."

If Obama believes that, he'll believe anything. I would hope he would know better than to ask the perpetrators whether they've been behaving appropriately. I can just hear President Nixon saying to a press conference the same thing: "I was assured by the the White House Plumbers that their burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's doctor in Los Angeles was appropriate and met basic standards."

When that criminal behaviour ordered from the Oval Office came out, Nixon faced impeachment and had to resign. Well, times have changed. But if President Obama really doesn't yet know the actual conditions of Manning's detention – if he really believes, as he's said, that "some of this has to do with Private Manning's wellbeing", despite the contrary judgments of the prison psychologist – then he's being lied to, and he needs to get a grip on his administration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/11/bradley-manning-wikileaks

[monmouth]

1. I think much of Manning's horrid treatment has to do with Assange...n/t

[Demeter]

2. Oh, Is Assange Setting the Policy of the US Military and Constitution?

:sarcasm:

Assange is just the one that got away, so far...

Manning's horrid treatment has to do with abuse of power and lawlessness at the highest levels in this corporate kleptocracy which has taken the nation by coup.

[roguevalley]

3. I love how a lawyer can find this appropriate. I love how Obama can

just fall into the same pit as everyone else and parrot the lies. He will carry this mark forever.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Does it really matter? n/t

[Ramulux]

4. and under the bus goes Ellsberg

Doesn't he realize you aren't allowed to criticize Obama for doing the same exact thing bush did? Ellsberg must want the republicans in power, that is the only logical conclusion I can reach.

[kenny blankenship]

6. It's Palin/Ellsberg 2012 - haven't you heard?

[WinkyDink]

5. Nobody here but us chickens, Boss!