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CounterPunch
by Daniel Ellsberg

03/20/11

President Obama tells us that he's asked the Pentagon whether the conditions of confinement of Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking state secrets, 'are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are.' If Obama believes that, he'll believe anything...

http://counterpunch.org/ellsberg03182011.html



Dealing on detentions

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

03/18/11

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon wants to make a deal with the Obama administration on detention policy. 'I don't want us to get hardened on any positions until we sit down and understand each other's positions,' the California Republican said in an unexpectedly cordial House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday. 'I do not want this to get on a partisan track.' McKeon's conciliatory tone might seem odd, given that just last week he attacked the president for 'repeating the mistakes of the Bush administration by attempting to generate detainee policy by executive fiat' with his new indefinite-detention proposal...

http://tinyurl.com/4vjuhcr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Protestors Arrested At Bradley Manning Support Demo
https://groups.google.com/group/freepage-news/t/624e4c7ec6ab4702?hl=en

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Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manning

Approximately 30 protesters were arrested near the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia on Sunday while protesting the imprisonment of Pfc. Bradley Manning; public radio budget cuts could impact hundreds of thousands in rural Alaska; White House says Qaddafi is not the target of military action.

http://www.truth-out.org/news-brief-daniel-ellsberg-col-ann-wright-among-30-arrested-protesting-against-abuse-bradley-manning



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