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Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law' [Head slap alert....]
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Posted on 04/22/2011 5:01:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law'

By: MJ Lee April 22, 2011 06:09 PM EDT

President Barack Obama’s assertion at a California fundraiser Thursday that Bradley Manning “broke the law” may have run afoul of presidential protocol, according to legal analysts who have been tracking the case of the Army private charged in the WikiLeaks case.

“I have to abide by certain classified information,” Obama is shown saying in a video that quickly began to circulate among media outlets Friday. “If I was to release stuff, information that I’m not authorized to release, I’m breaking the law…We’re a nation of laws. We don’t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate… He broke the law.”

Obama’s remarks about Manning were made after a group of protesters interrupted him at another fundraiser earlier in the day to sing a song asking for Manning’s release.

Until now, the biggest point of controversy surrounding Manning had been about the conditions under which he was being detained at a marine base in Quantico, Va. Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley offered his resignation after criticizing the Defense Department’s treatment of Manning, and Obama’s only comments about the accused whistle-blower had been about that issue.

“I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are,” Obama told reporters at a news conference in March. “I can’t go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning’s safety as well.”

But the president’s comment to a group of donors that Manning “broke the law” drew immediate fire from some tracking Manning’s case. he nation’s highest official.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bradleymanning; california
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To: Sub-Driver
WOW. What an freakin' idiot. Is he begging for Manning's lawyers to assert a UCI defense.

Generally, I'm not a tin-foil hatter, but Obama is an attorney, and I'm POSITIVE he has been thoroughly briefed about the jurisprudential dangers of commenting on pending military criminal cases. To make a public statement like this in a case that is already so high profile, is just moronic.

21 posted on 04/22/2011 7:37:38 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: prairiebreeze

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22 posted on 04/22/2011 8:09:39 PM PDT by prairiebreeze ("We need to be in it to win it, and if there's doubt we need to get out". -- Palin on Libya.)
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To: LucyT
“You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist.”

We sat stunned.

He continued, “Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn’t sound like a radical.”

The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, “You mean just like Barack Obama?”

He responded; “Yes, just like Barack Obama.”

23 posted on 04/22/2011 8:33:51 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Sub-Driver
“He seems to have had a bad day forty-nine YEARS( including conception during the Selma March in one ofAmerica's new 57 states) years, because he said a number of things that really were not[nor ever have been]coherent,” Aftergood said.

Obama wears Depends in two areas because he can't stop the shi'ite from his mouth that is usually well ensconced up his arse keeps dribbling lies, mispeaks, and pure anti-American traeson hate speach...scum of the earth.

24 posted on 04/22/2011 9:17:11 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well I guess that settles it, no need for a trial.

I guess there would be a cost reduction if obama was to just decide all legal cases, from the comfort of a fundraiser.


25 posted on 04/22/2011 10:31:09 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Sub-Driver

GAY FREAKS wanting ANOTHER GAY FREAK to skate.


26 posted on 04/23/2011 2:22:20 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Paladin2
Zer0 breaks the Law AND the Constitution daily.

BHO=BHE

Biggest Hypocrite Ever

27 posted on 04/23/2011 11:18:46 AM PDT by taraytarah
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To: Sacajaweau
"If I was to release stuff....."

"...Like my long form birth certificate..."

28 posted on 04/23/2011 12:26:07 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: prairiebreeze

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29 posted on 04/23/2011 5:11:59 PM PDT by prairiebreeze ("We need to be in it to win it, and if there's doubt we need to get out". -- Palin on Libya.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought the leader of the EXECUTIVE branch was supposed to ENFORCE laws!

This usurper goes as far to usurp the Judicial branch (deciding for himself which laws are legal or illegal) like DOM and “this guy is guilty”

This usurper also usurps the Legislative branch...

So I guess that makes him the King of USA


30 posted on 04/23/2011 7:57:55 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Chicago politics = corrupted capitalism = takeover by COMMUNity-ISM)
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To: Sacajaweau
LMFAO and all this from a so-called Harvard Law grad

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

31 posted on 04/24/2011 3:59:25 AM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: Sub-Driver
Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law'

Takes one to know one....

32 posted on 04/25/2011 5:59:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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