Private First Class Bradley Manning, behind bars for nine months for passing confidential documents to Wikileaks, has still not been tried, let alone convicted. However, the army inflicting abuse that are reminiscent of those charged under George W. Bush against terrorism suspects. Inexplicably, such practices seem to have the endorsement of President Obama.
Private Manning was placed in solitary confinement in the prison of the Marine Corps Base Quantico (Virginia). An hour a day, he is allowed to walk into a room with leg irons. He must remove his clothes every night. And every morning he has to stand naked in front of his cell and undergo a body search before being restored to his clothes.
Military sources said without further explanation is that these precautionary measures are intended to prevent the soldier Manning injury. Yet, according to his lawyers, all indications are he is not suicidal and that the army has not placed under surveillance to prevent it n'attente his life.
(It would have made a sarcastic comment about suicide.) Forced nudity humiliation is a classic technique. In the early years of the war against terrorism waged by the Bush administration, the CIA interrogators stripped the prisoners regularly in order to break their resistance, and submit them to extract confessions.
A CIA report dated 2004 explains that the nudity and sleep deprivation and diet manipulation, used to put the prisoner in a state of mind "he learns to get his well-being, comfort and needs immediate information before it hides. Private Manning is not an enemy combatant with no indication that the army is trying to extort confessions.
Many military and civilian officials remain angry face considerable leakage of secret documents to Wikileaks. But while some expressed their anger through such treatments, it would be good to remind them of principles such as presumption of innocence and the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual.
Philip Crowley, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, made a classic mistake: he told the truth to some people (including a blogger), namely that the treatment meted out to Private Manning was "ridiculous, productive and cons stupid ". He resigned March 13. How is it that Obama, who has continued to denounce the mistreatment of detainees, tolerate such abuse? Last week, during a press conference, he said the Pentagon had assured him that the conditions of detention of Private Manning "were acceptable and respectful of our principles," adding that he could not going into details.
Yet, precisely, these are details we need to explain and correct the abuses that should never have started. 
Private Manning was placed in solitary confinement in the prison of the Marine Corps Base Quantico (Virginia). An hour a day, he is allowed to walk into a room with leg irons. He must remove his clothes every night. And every morning he has to stand naked in front of his cell and undergo a body search before being restored to his clothes.
Military sources said without further explanation is that these precautionary measures are intended to prevent the soldier Manning injury. Yet, according to his lawyers, all indications are he is not suicidal and that the army has not placed under surveillance to prevent it n'attente his life.
(It would have made a sarcastic comment about suicide.) Forced nudity humiliation is a classic technique. In the early years of the war against terrorism waged by the Bush administration, the CIA interrogators stripped the prisoners regularly in order to break their resistance, and submit them to extract confessions.
A CIA report dated 2004 explains that the nudity and sleep deprivation and diet manipulation, used to put the prisoner in a state of mind "he learns to get his well-being, comfort and needs immediate information before it hides. Private Manning is not an enemy combatant with no indication that the army is trying to extort confessions.
Many military and civilian officials remain angry face considerable leakage of secret documents to Wikileaks. But while some expressed their anger through such treatments, it would be good to remind them of principles such as presumption of innocence and the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual.
Philip Crowley, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, made a classic mistake: he told the truth to some people (including a blogger), namely that the treatment meted out to Private Manning was "ridiculous, productive and cons stupid ". He resigned March 13. How is it that Obama, who has continued to denounce the mistreatment of detainees, tolerate such abuse? Last week, during a press conference, he said the Pentagon had assured him that the conditions of detention of Private Manning "were acceptable and respectful of our principles," adding that he could not going into details.
Yet, precisely, these are details we need to explain and correct the abuses that should never have started.
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