State Dep Spokesman Condemns Treatment of Bradley Manning

[TexanRudeBoy]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/10/amnesty/index.html

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was speaking to a small audience of 20 people (including Thomas) at MIT regarding social media, and the following occurred:

And then, inevitably, one young man said he wanted to address "the elephant in the room". What did Crowley think, he asked, about Wikileaks? About the United States, in his words, "torturing a prisoner in a military brig"? Crowley didn’t stop to think. What’s being done to Bradley Manning by my colleagues at the Department of Defense "is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid" . . .




This is huge IMO. Naturally Obama was asked about this and replied that the Pentagon told him everything was rosy so no big deal..........

[ronpaulhawaii]

Crowley has resigned over this

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/13/state-departments-p-j-crowley-stepping-down/


(CNN) – P.J. Crowley is abruptly stepping down as State Department spokesman under pressure from White House officials because of controversial comments he made last week about the Bradley Manning case,

[silentshout]

Crowley has resigned over this

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/13/state-departments-p-j-crowley-stepping-down/

Disgusting. Obama/Clinton forced this guy to resign. Typical.

[Batman]

I never understand why these guys "resign". They'd be in the same danger anyways.