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• So, in Barack Obama’s administration, it’s perfectly acceptable to abuse an American citizen in detention who has been convicted of nothing by consigning him to 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement, barring him from exercising in his cell, punitively imposing “suicide watch” restrictions on him against the recommendations of brig psychiatrists, and subjecting him to prolonged, forced nudity designed to humiliate and degrade. But speaking out against that abuse is a firing offense. Good to know.
  
  As Matt Yglesias just put it: “Sad statement about America that P.J. Crowley is the one being forced to resign over Bradley Manning.” And as David Frum added: “Crowley firing: one more demonstration of my rule: Republican pols fear their base, Dem pols despise it.

  Glenn Greenwald: WH forces P.J. Crowley to resign for denouncing the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention as “ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid” (via kateoplis)
  • #Bradley Manning
  • #PJ Crowley
  • #Politics
  • #News
  • #Wikileaks
  13 Mar 2011