Asked by ABC News if he agreed with that, President Obama said Friday that he’d “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.” Pentagon officials, he said, “assure me that they are. 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.”
While some White House officials knew of Crowley’s comments, White House chief of staff Bill Daley learned of them when ABC News asked that question of the president. Daley told White House officials of Crowley, “he’s done.” Manning was arrested in May 2010 after telling a former hacker that he had given documents to WikiLeaks.
Earlier this month the Army filed 22 new counts against him including aiding the enemy, theft of public property or records, computer fraud, transmitting information in violation of the Espionage Act.
[On January 19, Amnesty International wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates](
http://on January 19, Amnesty International wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates to “express concern about the conditions under which Private First Class (PFC) Bradley Manning is detained at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia,” saying that “the restrictions imposed in PFC Manning’s case appear to be unnecessarily harsh and punitive.”) to “express concern about the conditions under which Private First Class (PFC) Bradley Manning is detained at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia,” saying that “the restrictions imposed in PFC Manning’s case appear to be unnecessarily harsh and punitive.”
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell has said Manning’s cell is like that of “every single other pretrial detainee at the brig. It just so happens that the configuration of the brig is that every individual is confined to his or her own cell. He’s being provided well-balanced, nutritious meals three times a day. He receives visitors and mail, and can write letters. He routinely meets with doctors, as well as his attorney. He’s allowed to make telephone calls. And he is being treated just like every other detainee in the brig. So assertions by liberal bloggers, or network reporters or others that he is being mistreated, or somehow treated differently than others, in isolation, are just not accurate.”
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Personally I don’t know a lot about how he is being held but my understanding is that he is on suicide watch because of some of the things he has been saying. Normally when a prisoner is on suicide watch all cords and belts are removed from the cell so that he can not hang himself. Also he is under closer surveillance to see if he is doing anything unusual to himself. Apparently Manning made a comment that if he wanted to he could strangle himself with the elastic of his pants at night when he was suppose to be sleeping and so now he needs to disrobe before bed. I wouldn’t call this torture.
