CNN: BRADLEY MANNING SHOULD BE FREE
[CENTER]By Jesselyn Radack and Kathleen McClellan, Special to CNN Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/opinion/radack-manning-sentence/
(CNN) -- Pfc. Bradley Manning is one of the biggest whistle-blowers in U.S. history, and his case is one of the Obama administration's unprecedented seven prosecutions against national security and intelligence whistleblowers. His disclosures to WikiLeaks revealed war crimes and torture -- topics that are surely in the public's interest to know.
The fact that the mainstream media around the world reprinted the bulk of his disclosures is evidence of the clear value in knowing what our government is doing.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years, but should have been sentenced to time served already: 3½ years, 112 days of which was improper pretrial detention, also known as torture. He suffered prolonged solitary confinement and was forced to be naked.
Manning's trial was sparsely covered by the mainsteam media. The alternative media outlets who did cover the story comprehensively were faced with unprecedented secrecy, so much so that for months of pretrial proceedings, none of the court pleadings was publicly available. America should be better than secret courts and the criminalization of whistleblowing.
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In the 90's I worked for a rabid right winger. He called CNN, the Clinton News Network.
Apparently they were just sooooo liberal. 
But yeah, I'd say all bets are off at this point.
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and it's funny you say that about him, because on something I referenced him on, I have him saying he was wrong to do like he did. HA!
http://www.zazzle.com/elizabeth_warren_for_president_of_the_usa_bumper_sticker-128665143471542797?rf=238107662556833486
conversion and recanted much of his hate-mongering. The Lord, it is said, often works in mysterious ways 
FOX news is for the far right, MSNBC is for the extreme left. CNN is for airports!
All the while the war criminals and banksters revel in their freedom. 
