Army gives tour of Manning’s new digs
In an attempt to preclude criticism of Bradley Manning’s new accommodations at Fort Leavenworth, the Army conducted a tour for the press (USA Today link);
The Fort Leavenworth prison, which opened late last year, was built near the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, the military’s maximum-security prison for inmates sentenced to at least five years confinement, including those sentenced to death.
About 150 inmates are at the medium-security prison, Collins said, including others awaiting military trial. The prison is the northern edge of the fort, which is also home to the Army’s Command and General Staff College.
Manning was transferred to Fort Leavenworth amid international criticism about the 23-year-old’s treatment during his detention in the Washington area. At Quantico, Manning was held in maximum security in a single-occupancy cell and was allowed to wear only a suicide-proof smock to bed each night.
Yeah, it doesn’t really matter if Manning was being kept at a country club with a fully furnished luxury apartment complete with cabana boys. Hasn’t the Army seen the signs? They say “Free Bradley Manning” not “Keep Bradley Manning in luxury”. Trying to get ahead of the criticism is futile.
Speaking of Bradley Manning, our buddy, Jim Hanson, talked with IVAW’s Adam Kokesh about Manning last night on Russia TV. Hanson comes in at about 8 minutes into this video;
Jimbo showed amazing restraint – I think about the time the fat hippie called the US military “the biggest disgrace”, i would have jabbed a pencil in his forehead.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Media, Usual Suspects
as much as this might sound like I’m defending Obama, Kokesh got stupid because Obama said manning broke the law… but at 11 minutes or so they said the papers were full of crimes, bla bla bla. THEY are the one’s who determine what is CRIMINAL in their minds.
I can’t believe how restrained Jimbo was. The idiot saying the military is a disgrace would have pushed me off the deep end.
I think its bullshit that someone like Kokesh who identifies himself as a libertarian agrees to have a show on a television network that is subsidized by an increasingly authoritarian regime. But I don’t honestly believe Kokesh is truly a libertarian however.
I am shocked that Uncle Jimbo didn’t rip the head off the “Voters for Peace” quack and spit down his throat…
Manning is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT OF LAW.
And if he really is a “whistleblower”, if he spilled these classified documents, as his charge sheet reads, then he is guilty. Kokesh celebrates him for his whistleblower status. But if he weren’t guilty, he wouldn’t be a whistleblower.
So now we know that even Kokesh is saying that he’s guilty. Implying it, anyway.
You can expect as much from the Kremlin’s international propaganda arm.
“Whistle Blower” Is about procedural or specific acts of wrong doing IE: My boss is embezzling, or “The acquisitions process is totally corrupt”. Release of classified documents even “Confidential” documents that do not show clear evidence of a crime, is itself a crime.
Now Adam is a grade A mega douche, that is clear after the first five seconds. Playing up being a warrior, and all American then sardonically ripping people’s right to free speech (even the president has that right) shows that his Drills probably didn’t drop this SOB enough.
Ok at what point were there unlawful orders? Not on 12 July, not in Afghanistan, Civilian torture? Ok these weenies need their asses dropped in the Combat Zone, and then debate “legality” when lead is flying at you.
BTW, WHY didn’t Jimbo bitch slap him into next week?
If he want to blow the whistle on wrong doing, did he try to go to JAG to report a possible war crime? Did he try to go to the IG? Just asking because those routes are available to anyone who thinks there has been a crime committed. Everyone in the military knows about those avenues, so why if he really thought there was a crime that had been comitted…and not in his unit by the way, didn’t he avail himself of those methods of “whistle-blowing”? Because he was mad at the “Army” he wanted to embarrass “the Army”. He committed a crime not because he was interested in seeing wrongdoing punished…he did it because he had a hissy fit because he was mad about his situation in life.
Will they just get on with the g.d. trial already.