Comments on: Update 1/16/13: Right to a speedy trial to be addressed today, Graham Nash on unlawful pretrial punishment http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-11613-right-to-a-speedy-trial-to-be-addressed-today-graham-nash-on-unlawful-pretrial-punishment Exposing war crimes is not a crime! Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jill Friedman http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-11613-right-to-a-speedy-trial-to-be-addressed-today-graham-nash-on-unlawful-pretrial-punishment#comment-890 Jill Friedman Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:05:32 +0000 http://bradleymanning.org/?p=26802#comment-890 This is just a national shame

]]> By: William Wagner http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-11613-right-to-a-speedy-trial-to-be-addressed-today-graham-nash-on-unlawful-pretrial-punishment#comment-889 William Wagner Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:56:28 +0000 http://bradleymanning.org/?p=26802#comment-889 In the pre-trial punishment given to Private Bradley Manning, the Marine Corps kept him in isolation for a dangerously long period of time. The Quantico brig, under the constant eye of General George Flynn from the Pentagon, without hesitation blew off weekly protests from staff psychiatrists who warned that the staff’s handling of Manning endangered his psychological health. Judge Lind made no attempt to correct these practices by taking serious note of them and reducing Manning’s sentence drastically.

This apparent universal disrespect shown by the military for psychiatric advice helps to clarify why so many soldiers return home with PTSD. Judge Lind has thrown away a crucial teaching moment for instructing the DoD in how to preserve the psychological health of our armed forces.

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