And if they find any law/treaty breaking by the United States, the US will just veto the report.

“he is treated the same as other prisoners at Quantico, Virginia”

Maybe the whole place needs to be investigated!!

So, President Obama’s authority carries out this torture of a political prisoner. By what mechanism can We The People turn him over to the Hague for Crimes Against Humanity?

Thanks David . . . I hope this goes viral . . . along with Assange’s sitch.

Thanks for keeping us all up to date . . . maybe we CAN raise a world wide hue and cry over this horrid and despotic abuse of civil rights and basic morality and decency.

Political prisoners, torturing before even charged with a crime, assassinating Americans, widespread bank fraud and criminal activity, entrenching trickle down economics as the official policy of the USG no matter the party in power, the beginning of the end of Social Security, the beginning of the end of the free and open internet….

BUT HEY DADT WAS ALMOST REPEALED!!!!!!!

CLAP HARDER DAMMIT!!!

Just goes to show this pseudo christian nation is nuts.

Killing and torturing for Christs sake is nuts.

Merry Christmas to the barbarians.

We need to look forwad, not back.

“…treated like any other prisoner…” You mean everyone has a “private room”?

I’m looking forward to the day when Obama and all the other criminals get what’s due them.

And don’t forget obama’s indefinite detention by executive order. This guy is even worse than bush.

What’s private about it? The fact that it’s Private Manning’s cell?

You know, the UN’s heart is in the right place here, but they don’t have that great of a track record with making much of a difference wrt police-state brutality.

It is not torture I don’t believe, but it is certainly inhumane treatment of ANY prisoner (not picked up as a POW in actual combat) who has not been charged (even if he was, he is innocent until proven guilty and not afforded treatment that is the same of those convicted and are violent)who has yet to be even charged. How does the US arrest a US citizen for 7 months without charging them.

Obama is guilty of covering up the atrocities committed by Bush thereby making Obama open for criminal prosecution for failing to prosecute Bush and Cheney. Moreover, there is an outstanding arrest warrant legally held by Interpol for the arrest of Dick Cheney in a Halliburton bribery scheme.

This is criminal treatment of an American citizen even under the UCMJ.

809. ART. 9. IMPOSITION OF RESTRAINT
(a) Arrest is the restraint of a person by an order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing him to remain within certain specified limits. Confinement is the physical restraint of a person.
(b) An enlisted member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by any commissioned officer by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or through other persons subject to this chapter. A commanding officer may authorize warrant officers, petty officers, or noncommissioned officers to order enlisted members of his command or subject to his authority into arrest or confinement.
(c)A commissioned officer, a warrant officer, or a civilian subject to this chapter or to trial thereunder may be ordered into arrest or confinement only by a commanding officer to whose authority he is subject, by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or by another commissioned officer. The authority to order such persons into arrest or confinement may not be delegated.
(d) No person may be ordered into arrest or confinement except for probable cause……………
813. ART. 13 PUNISHMENT PROHIBITED BEFORE TRIAL
No person, while being held for trial, may be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges pending against him, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon him be any more rigorous than the circumstances required to insure his presence, but he may be subjected to minor punishment during that period for infractions of discipline.

The military seems to be violating the UCMJ.

It’s not going to happen in this country. Our number one priority is protecting white collar criminals and the elite from prosecution under the law.

Held without criminal charge for seven months in solitary confinement, without bedding, without exercise – even in your cell – that is torture.

Like SD said in another thread. WE are encouraging sadism by letting this mistreatment continue. I hope the European Press picks up on this and runs with it every day until Manning is released on bail.

“Manning faces a court martial but no criminal charges”.

In fact, criminal charges against Manning were filed in July, although from my reading of UCMJ, these charges can be modified at any time, possibly even once the CM has begun.

As for a CM, yes he faces one, but when? Article 10 calls for a speedy trial and Manning’s pre-trial detention already exceeds anything mentioned in the Article 10 case law that I’ve seen.

And more importantly, can someone explain to me who decides pretrial motions under any of these UCMJ Articles (9, 10, or 13)? No CM has been convened so who’s in charge here?

Hamsher was just on Cenk ( thankfully standing in for Ed today) saying how little evidence there is for ANY of the charges he’s been locked up for based on some loser’s testimony.
I always wondered how a private would have access to all this classified stuff.
Methinks manning is a convenient scapegoat and our illustrious government is trying, once again to trick us into beleiving they’re on top of something when they dont’; nahve a clue.

Oh, the Comcast/NBC merger looks like it’s going thru
F.C.C. Head Expected to Approve Comcast-NBC Deal
Fake net neutrality and now this.

Yep. Sigh.

Surtt,
Don’t look now, but they’re gaining on you…

Phils,
“In fact, criminal charges against Manning were filed in July”

What was Pfc. Manning charged with?

The CM will proceed when the court has Manning’s confession.