Bradley Manning, the GI responsible
for leaking classified military documents, recently admitted to
making a noose during his imprisonment in Kuwait, according to
an expository article by Ben
Nuckols and David Dishneau. In the article, Manning is quoted telling
the jury that he “certainly made a noose, the sheet noose in
particular”.
After he was arrested in Kuwait, he felt the lowest he had ever felt,
which is what provoked him to make the noose. Bradley said that he
did not feel like hurting himself after he left Kuwait, but he was
still treated as a suicide risk for eight days,and then upgraded to
the prevention of injury status after he transferred to the Marine
Corps brig in Quantico, Va. Nuckols and Dishneau explained that
Manning's lawyers are now fighting to get all charges dropped against
him for “illegal punishment” that lasted “past the time he was
having suicidal thoughts”. The military defends that they were
trying to protect Manning by taking his clothing and shackling him
when he was outside of his cell. If he was capable of making a noose
out of a sheet, he could just as easily make a noose out of his
clothing.
Like
the leaks from Manning, the book No Easy Day, an
account of the raid on Osama Bin Laden,
tells classified information that contradicts the Obama
administration's account, if the information provided by the author
under the pseudonym Mark Owen is true. The article the New York Times
ran about the book describes that Osama was “shot in the head when
he peered out of his bedroom”, while the Obama administration told
that the shot in the stairwell missed, and Bin Laden was not shot
until they reached his bedroom. It should not make a difference to
anyone whether he was shot in his room or looking out, but because of
the administration's supposed lie, people feel scandalized. While the
book and the leaks of information are severely different in many
ways, some Americans' reactions are very similar. The military's
actions are always with the purpose of protecting America and its
citizens, and the citizens must remember that fact despite the leaked documents.
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