As a matter of fact, they are in a bind here. They can’t disappear him now, too much exposure. They can’t put a tight enough lid on the proceedings to stymie leaks and they know that their propaganda is weak and fading with an increasingly sceptical public.
Their conundrum is should they roll the dice and go for B’s balls, or backtrack as far as it takes to sweep this mess PFC Bradley Manning has lured them into under the rug.

An interesting and dangerous conundrum for our powered friends.

War-Criminals remain unpunised while those who inform are subject to illegal detention and propably torture (or why is the UN spechal rapporeur on torture denied to speak with Manning alone and face-to-face?)

Unfortunately, hee in Germany it’s the same… We don’t torture, we asked the Lybians (under Ghaddafi) and nowadays the USA to extract information via rubberhose-cryptography…

The recent pattern of American violations of international law are ultimately based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal system. The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims itself the “land of freedom”, has the most dishonest, dangerous and crooked legal system of any developed nation. Legal corruption is covering America like a blanket. Bradley doesn’t stand a chance in this environment.