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State Dept Spokesman: Bradley Manning’s Treatment “Ridiculous and Counterproductive and Stupid”

3-11-2011

State Department spokesman PJ Crowley called the treatment of Bradley Manning in military prison “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” Manning, the soldier accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks, has been held in solitary confinement and forced to sleep naked–reportedly “for his own good.”

State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley made the remarks at a small event on new media, organized by the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT last night.

Manning filed an affidavit yesterday in his appeal objecting to his treatment. In it, he notes that in addition to being stripped naked every night, he’s still not allowed to have sheets or a blanket and gets woken up every 5 minutes by guards who say they have to check on him to see if he’s okay.

Meanwhile, the decision to strip Manning of all his clothes every night appears to have been the result of a sarcastic quip he made to a guard last week.

Read Daphne Eviatar’s past posts on Bradley Manning’s treatment in military prison.


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  • http://none D. ANDERSON

    Crowley is absolutely correct. it is also typically american governments way of conducting it’s way of doing things.

  • P. Henry

    Bradley Manning’s is tiring to call all Americans stupid he thinks because you don’t have a Collage
    Education your STUPID

  • http://firefox girlpipefitter

    WAIT A MINUTE… YOU CANT TELL ME THAT THIS YOUNG KID OF 22-23 YRS OLD, & BEING A PRIVATE TO TOP IT OFF…
    I CANT IMAGINE HOW IN THE HELL HE WOULD OF HAD THE CHANCE TO GET A HOLD OF TOP SECRET FILES… TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE BUILDING, LET ALONE GET THROUGH THE DOOR.
    THIS POOR KID IS THE FALL GUY. I MIGHT BUY THE IDEA HE DID IT IF HE WAS HIGHER RANKED, OLDER, A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER REASONS.
    YOU CANT CONVINCE ME TO BELIEVE THIS LAME ASS STORY.
    GOD BLESS THE KID.

  • http://none RH Huntley

    Not even Al Capone was treated like this. In Fact, I have never haerd of any federal prisoner treated like this. Why has President Obama not put a stop to it. He knows what is happening and that it is Illegal.