Alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning: “What Have I Done To Deserve This?”

[kas125]

Alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning: “What Have I Done To Deserve This?”

For the first time since Bradley Manning was arrested last year, the young army private who allegedly leaked millions of secret documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has described, in the first person, the conditions of his detainment. According to his own account, that treatment includes being stripped of his clothes nightly, intimidated by guards and kept on suicide watch, despite repeated admissions from the brig’s officials that he shows no signs of planning suicide.

In the statement, which was published on the blog of Manning’s lawyer David Coombs, Manning responds to his detainers’ rejection of a plea that he be taken off the suicide watch list and have his detention status reduced from “maximum” to “medium.” He cites a half dozen reports from psychiatrists in the Quantico brig where he’s being kept, saying that he shows no signs of mental imbalance or suicidal thoughts. The psych reports describe him as “well-spoken,” “neat in appearance,” and displaying a “mood and appearance…consistent with his normal character.”

He goes on to describe how, after a September protest outside of the Quantico facility and an intimidating run-in with guards giving him contradictory orders, the brig commander James Averhart visited his cell. Manning says Averhart told him that he was the commander and that “no one can tell him what to do.”

“He also said that he was, for all practical purposes, ‘God,’” Manning’s report reads. Manning says Averhart placed him on official “Suicide Risk” status.

Read it at - http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/10/alleged-wikileaker-bradley-manning-what-have-i-done-to-deserve-this/

[earcandle]

1. OMG>>>> we need to get this guy out of there. Those psychotic sickos need to be rejected from

Armed Forces Leadership positions. 

we are so entrenched with criminals who just don't have a clue
anymore, they have so been treated like god. 
with the power of life and death at their fingertips... my
gopod what have we allowed in our name?????

[kas125]

2. It just breaks my heart to think about what they're doing to

that kid, especially when I look at my own sons and remember how I tried to teach them to always do what they thought was the right thing to do. That's what he did and he's paying a terrible price.

[pacalo]

3. Providing this nation continues to have a Constitution, I hope Bradley becomes a very rich man

in the end.

[earcandle]

4. that would certainly help him. but still, this is torture in America.... boo hoo...

[zalinda]

5. Has Manning even been charged with a crime yet? n/t

[pam4water]

7. Yeah they got a around to charging him a couple of weeks ago. The charges include adding terrorists

which can carry the death sentence. But the arm says they are going for the death penalty.... because they are such nice guys...

[The Wizard]

6. And the treasonous Bush cartel

enjoys the fruits of their ill gotten gains. The United States is on the precipice of a disaster that could give totalitarians a free hand to do what they please.