{"id":187882,"date":"2011-02-08T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/08\/kucinich-d-oh-demands-to-visit-private-bradley-manning\/"},"modified":"2011-02-08T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:34:00","slug":"kucinich-d-oh-demands-to-visit-private-bradley-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/08\/kucinich-d-oh-demands-to-visit-private-bradley-manning\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich (D-OH) Demands to Visit Private Bradley Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2011\/02\/04\/national\/a152856S67.DTL\">Good for him<\/a>.  He is is clearly using his position as a Representative to shine light on what is clearly an attempt to torture the alleged Wikileaks source into fingering Julian Assange:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich has asked the Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a visit with an Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich, a Democrat who is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter Friday to Gates asking for a visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning.<\/p>\n<p>Manning is being held in a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich says he is concerned about reports of Manning&#8217;s treatment while in custody. Manning&#8217;s lawyer has filed a complaint with the Quantico commander about the conditions Manning is being held under.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a particularly big fan of the distinguished gentleman from Ohio, but he&#8217;s right here.<\/p>\n<p>The worst thing about this is that it is only his name on this letter.<\/p>\n<p>Where are the other 434 people who have sworn to &#8220;preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution&#8221; in Congress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for him. He is is clearly using his position as a Representative to shine light on what is clearly an attempt to torture the alleged Wikileaks source into fingering Julian Assange: Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich has asked the Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a visit with an Army private suspected of giving classified material &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1006,1103,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-military","category-secrecy","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882"}],"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=187882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}