{"id":186924,"date":"2013-08-21T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/21\/35-years\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:58:00","slug":"35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/21\/35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/22\/us\/manning-sentenced-for-leaking-government-secrets.html\">the sentence rendered by the judge against Bradley Manning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually a mild sentence, as he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2013\/08\/21\/bradley-mannings-sentence-parole-and-appeal-implications\/\">eligable for parole in about 8-1\/2 years<\/a>.  (The military has parole, unlike civilian Federal sentences)<\/p>\n<p>While the defense asked for 25 years, this is still a relatively mild sentence, particularly considering the prosecution&#8217;s request of 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the fact that the ringleader of the Abu Ghraib torturers only got 6 years indicates a problem with our priorities.&nbsp; The damage done to both the military, and the country, was far greater.<\/p>\n<p>IMNSHO, Obama will <b>never<\/b> pardon manning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the sentence rendered by the judge against Bradley Manning. This is actually a mild sentence, as he is eligable for parole in about 8-1\/2 years. (The military has parole, unlike civilian Federal sentences) While the defense asked for 25 years, this is still a relatively mild sentence, particularly considering the prosecution&#8217;s request of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1102,972,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-intelligence","category-justice","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}