While serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning - TopicsExpress



          

While serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning sometimes felt as if he were “watching nonstop snuff films.” Like hundreds of thousands of servicemen, who took refuge in the idea that obedience to superiors immunizes criminal behavior, Manning carried out unlawful orders to participate in an illegal war. When Manning became aware of war crimes, he was legally and morally obligated to report them – not just to his superior officers, who were at best aggressively indifferent to them, but to the public from whom those officers derive their supposed authority. Prior to trial, Manning was held for nine months in an especially severe form of solitary confinement that involved forced nudity, sleep deprivation, and persistent abuse, which constituted torture. If Manning had been a war criminal, rather than an honorable soldier who exposed war crimes, his pre-trial treatment would have led to dismissal of the charges against him – or his sentence being overturned. freedominourtime.blogspot/2013/07/committing-war-crimes-is-duty-reporting.html?showComment=1375328535216
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:30:21 +0000

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