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In brig, WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning ordered to sleep without clothing
The Washington Post ^ | 6 March 2011 | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on 03/06/2011 6:27:27 AM PST by Racehorse

Military jailers are forcing Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old soldier accused of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.org, to strip naked in his cell at night and sleep without clothing, a requirement his attorney says was imposed after Manning made a "sarcastic quip" about his confinement.

For most of the past eight months, Manning has been required to sleep wearing only boxer shorts, because of his status as a detainee under "prevention of injury watch," said 1st Lt. Brian Villiard, a spokesman for the military detention facility, or "brig," in Quantico. Beginning Wednesday night, the facility commander ordered that Manning turn over his boxers, too.

SNIP

In a blog post Saturday, Coombs gave this account of how the boxers were taken away: On Wednesday, Manning was told he would continue to be kept under the restrictions of prevention of injury watch, that there was nothing he could do to change his maximum-custody status and that the brig commander considered him at risk of self-harm. Manning then said that the restrictions were "absurd" and that if he wanted to harm himself using an item of clothing, he could do so "with the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops."

Without consulting the facility's mental health provider, the brig commander used Manning's quip as "justification" to increase the restrictions on him, Coombs said. He said Manning was not placed under suicide watch because that would have required a mental health provider's recommendation that the brig commander lacked.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bradleymanning; law; military; wikileaks
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To: ClearCase_guy
Manning isn’t too bright.

But like most liberals, he thinks he's a genius.

When this assessment discrepancy comes home to roost, they blame reality and call a lawyer.

21 posted on 03/06/2011 6:52:49 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Dusty Road; Recovering Ex-hippie

Don’t underestimate the lethality of a flip-flop. They killed John Kerry’s campaign.


22 posted on 03/06/2011 6:55:05 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Dusty Road

Ouuch...I know the feeling. ha.


23 posted on 03/06/2011 6:58:08 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok....Joke's over...Bring Back Bush!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

ROFLMAO!!!

WOW, THAT WAS FAST!!


24 posted on 03/06/2011 7:05:37 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok....Joke's over...Bring Back Bush!)
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To: Racehorse

I would like to see him hanged,but can you imagine he will
have to live like this for some 40 years!


25 posted on 03/06/2011 7:36:26 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Tijeras_Slim
They killed John Kerry’s campaign.

Double thumbs up!

26 posted on 03/06/2011 7:38:25 AM PST by moovova (Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
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To: Racehorse

He should be sleeping without breathing.


27 posted on 03/06/2011 7:52:19 AM PST by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (I am one lab accident away from being a super-villian.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Yes, the remark he made is akin to going through the TSA line at the airport and making a sarcastic remark about explosives.

Sometimes you get just what you ask for.

As far as the lawyer is concerned, the brig commander can't win here. If Manning did try to hurt himself, the lawyer would be screaming and yelling and jumping up and down because he was not protected from himself. The lawyer is always going to have something to complain about.

28 posted on 03/06/2011 8:10:44 AM PST by susannah59
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To: Racehorse

Maybe they should post Bubba in his cell on suicide watch (while he watches his naked body..)


29 posted on 03/06/2011 8:11:11 AM PST by richardtavor (One of the rare establishmt R,epublicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited gove)
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To: Dusty Road

30 posted on 03/06/2011 8:21:06 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Kill yourself with flip-flops??

First off, who wears FLIP FLOPS while in prison?

Second, I suppose you could eat them, and choke to death.

31 posted on 03/06/2011 8:25:15 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Radix

Given enough paper, one can make a rope and hang their self with it.

(ex: the Obamacare Health Bill)


32 posted on 03/06/2011 8:30:44 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Steely Tom; ClearCase_guy
But like most liberals, he thinks he's a genius.

I heard he is writing a book, "How I killed a grizzly bear with the toothpick from a Swiss Army Knife".

33 posted on 03/06/2011 8:32:43 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: bill1952

So, he wears a PAPER DRESS to bed.

How ironic.


34 posted on 03/06/2011 8:35:52 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: UCANSEE2
First off, who wears FLIP FLOPS while in prison? Prisoners are often issued platic flip-flops or croc-type slippers to wear to and from the showers and such - cuts down n the spread of fungi and infections. Two bucks for flip flops is much cheaper than treatments for an infected, gangrenous cut on a toe.
35 posted on 03/06/2011 8:43:53 AM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Indeed. The paper tiger wears paper clothes.


36 posted on 03/06/2011 8:44:39 AM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: Racehorse

The Washington Postule rag.


37 posted on 03/06/2011 8:47:08 AM PST by verity
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To: Racehorse

Somebody please come salve my breaking heart.


38 posted on 03/06/2011 8:50:22 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
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To: Racehorse

With boxers is not “without clothing.”


39 posted on 03/06/2011 8:50:39 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: MuttTheHoople
"Military prisons are NO JOKE."


40 posted on 03/06/2011 8:51:54 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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