Saturday, March 12, 2011

Obama turning to the dark side

Bradley Manning being mistreated, says Hillary Clinton spokesman
PJ Crowley; says Pentagon is being 'ridiculous and stupid' by subjecting WikiLeaks suspect to punitive conditions in jail (1)

YET:


Obama Defends Detention Conditions for Soldier Accused in WikiLeaks Case (2)

(This coming from the man who promised to close Guantánamo Bay Prison within one year of his term - a place that Amnesty International released its annual report calling the facility the "gulag of our times. Obama, now in office, changes his position and signed an executive order that moved to set into law the already existing practice on Guantánamo of holding detainees indefinitely without charge. What happened to the `change we can believe in' ??)

1.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/11/bradley-manning-clinton-crowley-comments
2.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12manning.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1299949248-9Poaci537Ekt+sensgZO0A

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