U.S. Can't Link Bradley Manning to Wilileaks

As this blog and many others, Bradley Manning has been held - one could argue illegally - in solitary confinement at Quantico, Virginia, because of his supposed role in leaking classified information to Wilileaks. His treatment, in fact, seems akin to something that would have been done under the regime of Chimperator Bush and Emperor Palpatine Cheney (something Barack Obama claimed would cease by the way). There's only one huge problem - according to NBC News, the U. S. military cannot find any evidence to link Manning yo Wikileaks. If such is indeed the case, Manning needs to be released and one would hope he'd bring a lawsuit based on his improper treatment. The whole affair increasingly looks like precipitous action by military leaders who were none to pleased to have the American public find out that our troops are committing atrocities as claimed by surviving victims. It would seem the better action would have been to punish those involved in the atrocities rather than punishing those seeking to see them cease. Here are highlights from NBC News:
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U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
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The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.
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WikiLeaks' release of secret diplomatic cables last year caused a diplomatic stir and laid bare some of the most sensitive U.S. dealings with governments around the world. It also prompted an American effort to stifle WikiLeaks by pressuring financial institutions to cut off the flow of money to the organization.
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Assange told msnbc TV last month that WikiLeaks was unsure Army PFC Bradley Manning is the source for the classified documents appearing on his site. "That's not how our technology works, that's not how our organization works," Assange said. "I never heard of the name of Bradley Manning before it appeared in the media." He called allegations that WikiLeaks had conspired with Manning "absolute nonsense."
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On Monday, U.S. military officials also strongly denied allegations that Manning, being held in connection with the WikiLeaks' release of classified documents, has been "tortured" and held in "solitary confinement" without due process.
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Anti-war groups, a psychologist group as well as filmmaker Michael Moore and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg have called for Bradley to be released from detention.