Post by Anonymous on Jan 25, 2011 15:13:26 GMT
villagevoice.com~ Army to NBC: Manning Not Tied to Assange
Bradley Manning, the army private being held on suspicion of leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks, cannot be linked to the organization's embattled editor-in-chief Julian Assange, U.S. Army officials admitted to NBC News last night. This complicates the Department of Justice's path to prosecuting WikiLeaks in the United States and stokes an already rising flame based on the prolonged and possibly inhumane detention of Manning, who military officials insist is not being tortured. And yet last night's report comes with another misstep, with anonymous officials telling NBC that "a U.S. Marine commander did violate procedure when he placed Manning on 'suicide watch' last week." [more]