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Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, . . . . has written to Defense Secretary Robert Gates requesting a meeting with Private First Class Bradley Manning, who is being held as a criminal suspect in the leaking of classified documents to WikiLeaks at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia.
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Late last year, Glenn Greenwald, writing on Salon.com, reported that the gay soldier is forced to endure solitary confinement 23 out of 24 hours each day, and is given “regular doses of anti-depressants… to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.” The Pentagon denounced the Greenwald piece, but the author maintains that the government failed to challenge specific factual assertions it contained.
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Kucinich had earlier written to Gates raising questions as to whether Manning’s confinement violated his Eighth Amendment protections from “cruel and unusual” punishment.
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The Democratic congressman charged that Manning’s “treatment at Quantico severely undermines the presumption of innocence as enshrined in the US Constitution and raises questions as to whether he is truly able to stand trial.”
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If Janet Napolitano saw something, would she say something? http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j356/aNannyMouse/SeeSomethingSaySomething.jpg
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