Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking thousands of classified messages to Wikileaks, has been held in solitary confinement under conditions that approach, if not satisfy, the definition of torture. Read a description of his conditions on Alternet and ponder what kind of a chief executive would condone what amounts to torture, especially after having been elected by the people as a decent, ethical alternative to the moral dwarfs that ran the White House for the previous eight years. It recalls the treatment of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after having been convicted of treason in 1894 on fabricated evidence by a kangaroo military court.

Manning may have indeed leaked the classified information to Wikileaks, but under the U. S. Constitution and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, his confinement, particularly when he has not been convicted and sentenced, is illegal if it amounts to torture.

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