So, what used to happen in GTMO undercover now happens in US and is policy. Change you can’t fucking believe.

Bush 2.0

Change? You can hardly believe in it.

A new Torturer-in-Chief claimed his mantle today at the White House press conference. Obama Administration mouthpiece Barack Obama says all is well with Bradley Manning.

Is your Defense Department lying to you, Mr President? And why are you accepting their lies?

The entire chain of command has now spoken. All administrative appeals are now exhausted. It’s time to take the case to the federal courts.

RH

Before Obama, at least we had Hope. Now we have none.

“I hear noothing, I see noooothing, I know nooooothing.” Thank you President Obama for making that clear.

Oh, look! The supposed Commander-in-Chief asks the DoD if what they (the DoD) are doing is OK. I can just hear them: “Yeah, boss, it’s kosher, don’t you worry about it!” (“what a maroon! he-he-he”).

Can’t the dude make up his own mind whether this is OK? Doesn’t he have a White House counsel that could tell him if it “meets our basic standards”? As a former soldier I can tell you that his sort of obsequiousness from a commander towards his subordinates leads to disrespect from those that are supposed to answer to him.

He consulted with Yoo before the press conference.

I was tempted to put a snark tag on the above, but, who the hell knows anymore, it may well not be snark.

The President has been assured DoD has some concerns about Bradley’s safety. I am so relieved.

Torture techniques, used on American soldiers, on American soil.

Any Obama supporters edging toward changing their minds?

It’s time to start talking up the primary challenge again.

There are so many things the American people want. We now have, depending on subject, one to two years of 60% favoring things from public option to out of Afganistan to JOBS JOBS JOBS, and still this shriveled dick won’t move.

There is a mantle to be picked up and run with by any national figure with balls or ovaries.

Somebody, please!

Well, as long as the Pentagon has told Obama they are following their own procedures, I’m satisfied. Not.

What procedures exist, exactly, for stripping an accused soldier naked every night? How is that done? Where in the detention codes is this documented? If there are procedures and they are being followed, can we please SEE those procedures?

What procedures exist, exactly, for making an accused soldier stand nude at parade rest and then attention every morning during cell inspection? In what chapter of the detention policy are those procedures described? Can we see them also please?

The president is torturing an accused American soldier on American soil in an American military prison. I don’t think it gets much worse than that.

As long as they say everything’s ok, I ain’t gonna make any waves…it’s called apathetic deniability

Actually, it doesn’t.

I can’t believe I voted for this guy. Every day he finds a new way to make me feel like an idiot for believing he could lead our country out of the fantasy reality we live in. The magnitude of the disappointment at his complete and utter failure to live up to his campaign persona and seize the once in a lifetime opportunity he was given–words escape me.

That no ambitious Democrat has identified the opportunity and begun to challenge Obama for the nomination is just more evidence that the Democratic party is beyond redemption.

“President Obama” just “took ownership” of human rights violations. When the Egyptian moment in the US finally comes (as it will) his fate is sealed. He will be going to jail for a very, very long time indeed.

I would suggest that President Obama go to Quantico and agree to stay in the cell for 4 weeks with Bradley Manning doing the exact same things that Bradley Manning is required to do and then tell us that it is appropriate. To dodge the question with some lame “the Pentagon told me he is being treated good and the way he is being treated is for his own good” is a non-answer and Jake Tapper should be ashamed for letting him off the hook with such a stupid and bullshit answer.

Am I right that you are the Freeway Blogger? I’d love to see signs up about this. Or have you retired?

Tapper: Do you disagree with PJ Crowley?

Obama: I think I gave you an answer to the substantive issue.

Obama’s tendencies of appearing noncommittal never cease to amaze me, and this event, where Obama was asked a question he surely had little to no time to prepare an answer for, is a glowing example. You cannot ask Obama a yes-or-no question and be answered with a simple “yes” or a simple “no”; he’ll instead answer with some hazy nonsense like he did here that makes him appear as noncommittal as possible, even when he’s obviously anything but.

This tendency towards seemingly noncommittal speech conveys the stances he takes on the issues he discusses in only the most indirect ways. As if his stances weren’t insulting enough, having to process this noncommittal speech, only to realize that what this speech conveys is obvious, and much better expressed using simple, direct speech, is a higher-order insult to any half-intelligent person.

That, coupled with his horrid treatment of Manning, and his horrid treatment of this nation and the world in all sorts of other respects, make it difficult for me to even look at Obama’s smug, insipid, revolting, con-artist face.

Just when you think this guy couldn’t plumb a greater depth of betrayal, this presser happens. My head exploded when he gave that curt, dismissive response. The same sociopathic response his predecessor would naturally give.
If we know what we know and this guy unblinkingly gives a pass to this kind of torment to an uncharged American citizen, what the fuck is that Nobel Peace Prize doing in his possession.
his is the worst vote of my 62 years, I am so sorry.

Thank God for Jake Tapper. He’s one of the only guys in the WH press corps who’s interested in asking real questions. The other is that dude from Mediaite.

“I have actually 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. They assure me that they are”

In other words, the U.S. military’s “basic standards” are to torture?

Guess so.

Seems to be the case.