Obama's Latest Torture; Administration Hypocrisy over Treatment of WikiLeaks Prisoner
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Obama is feeling the heat over the treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Obama took unseemly advantage of the accusation that George W. Bush's administration tortured terrorist detainees. Now even an O Force insider is strongly hinting that the administration's conduct toward the individual thought to have leaked thousands of classified documents amounts to torture.
Mr. Manning's attorney, David Coombs, last week released a letter in which Pfc. Manning purportedly described the ordeal he suffered in January during a three-day suicide watch at the brig where he is …
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Article title: Obama's Latest Torture; Administration Hypocrisy over Treatment of WikiLeaks Prisoner.
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Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC).
Publication date: March 15, 2011.
Page number: B02.
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