Oops. Looks like you beat me to it. I just posted a link to this story in the thread below. Sounds like they want to put him beyond help or visitation. Fuckers.

JMO, but this is the disappearance of Manning.

Boy I’m sure glad our Constitution provides for civilian control of the military.

I mean who knows what they’d get up to if Obama wasn’t commander in chief?

Our country is truly off the rails.

Hard to see any benefit to him; seems like Modern Removal Policy, so well-loved in the late 1800s for ‘dealing with’ Native Americans.

It seems the solution…it’s to control the people in charge

That sums up America.

They are moving him because Quantico is too close to foreign embassies and other individuals who keep trying to meet with him. It is meant to increase his isolation (if that were possible). They want to make it as costly as possible for people to try to see him. I agree. He is going to be ‘disappeared.’

Criminals. All of them.

Reply to Margaret, eCAComics and Watt4Bob

Are visitations forbidden at Levenworth?

I’d like Manning’s lawyer to let us know if his client is still being interrogated, and if so, the agencies involved. I guess the right to a speedy trial only applies if TPTB doesn’t want an open ended investigation such as this case.

PS. At least it’s his branch of service that’s going to guard him, not jarheads.

Please refine your Q. Are you referring to whatever standard rules allegedly exist at Ft. Leavenworth, or are you referring to how those rules are likely to be followed or enforced wrt Manning.

Like they say he will be farther away from Kocunich.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/03/04/dod-passes-the-buck-rather-than-let-kucinich-to-visit-bradley-manning/
I read that Manning must put visitors on an invitation list.

Our country is truly off the rails.

Off the rails and in the ditch.

While he’s there, perhaps Manning will write a book – he could call it “The Obama Archipelago.”

No idea but as a maximum security facility, I’m sure there are many, many more hoops to jump through.

depends on where they put him. People get visited during visitation hours at Leavenworth. Those that are allowed it. Who knows? Maybe they can put him in a general pop living situation – with other inmates with a limited if undetermined length of stay. Conjecture, I admit, but possible.
His lawyers should be briefed about this I figure they will know first.

Plus, have any of you guys been through Leavenworth? It’s about a 45 minute drive from central Kansas City.

And nearly impossible to protest in if you can get a bunch of supporters there.

True but they could treat him better in Quantico. There’s no reason to move him halfway across the country to do that.

I guess this puts the lie to those in charge being at all concerned about his mental health. What a bunch of authoritarian frauds.

I hope I’m not breaking a code-of-silence’
but I am wondering why Pfc Manning’s attorney isn’t involved in getting out constant news about
all the atrocities perpetrated on him. Only every once in a while, Combing puts an announcement on his web site re: Manning.
Why isn’t he trying this case in the court of public opinion?

Don’t think many were fooled.

You could add Kuncinich to that list.

One reason for the silence might be that it appears to be a pattern that his prison commanders respond with harsh treatment when there is attention brought to his case. In one instance, harsh treatment was initiated after a protest demonstration at the Quantico gate.

Someone should talk to Melissa Ethridge. She was raised in Fort Levenworth, Kansas. Parents in the Army.

She could provide some background info to the people helping Manning on what SOP used to be on entering the base. I’m sure she knows some local progressives who could help on the ground, etc.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Michael Whitney:

All this move serves is to emphasize that Obama has absolutely no control of the military…this is especially worrisome because it reinforces, for me at least, that the struggle between the civilian security aparatus and the banks and the military and the oil cowboys is tilting toward the military and the oilogopoly. This means that not only will we be facing expanded military presence in the ME during an election year but that in order to face down the military he will be left with reliance on the corporate mercenary armies that have been staffed and armed since 2002 and are totally outside federal control.

Now that Obama has begun to understand Norske’s physics of politics and is beginnin’ to turn his rhetoric back toward populist economic hot buttons (removin the cap on Social Security and “preserving” Medicare), the reality of two wars of occupation and another commitment incubating in Libya makes it imperative that we now turn up the heat for withdrawal and stoke it with demand for jobs and increased revenues. The issue of the deficit must be morphed into the issues of the wars, jobs, union rights and taxin’ the rich. We can do that between now and June of 2012 when the major rustbelt primaries are gunna be held. If you follow this timeline you can see the pathway to an insurection politics that could make Obama ACT instead of talk in order to get re-elected: flip the Wisconsin Senate in June, recount the Kloppenberg-Prosser votes and expose the vote theft in Milwaukee by September, recall Walker in January and vote in Governor Feingold by May of 2012. This sets up for a real anti-Obama movement to build within the party and get to the streets of Charlotte by August of 2012.

All the elements for this political physics experiment are now in proximity to one another: the matter (people), the energy (people) and the motion (people). We have 15 months to build the road to Charlotte.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION… AND DON’T GET LEFT BEHIND!!!

Hmmm…

If Manning gets referred to as a bird at any time, I would worry.

Didn’t Jeff write about some crazy chemical testing at FtLev?

He’s going to minimum security. Maybe he flipped on Assange.

Hopefully the Army can handle a maximum security risk like Bradley without torture god knows gay computer geeks like Bradley scare the crap out of Marines and thats why they had to treat him so rough.
Guys like Gay Computer Geeks like Bradley probably gave all the Marines wedgies in high school.
( I assume the Marines will try and justify there torture of Bradley by saying he was dangerous Fine if he was dangerous then Marine guards with guns are weak very weak)
I want them to be embarrassed:)

I want the Army to be too embarrassed to torture Bradley if they can’t handle Bradley without torture then how can our troops expect to win in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Oh wait its been ten years they can’t win I guess they are all weak.

D.A’s love to make people think someone else flipped on them its a game. He may have flipped he may not have but after months of torture I can’t blame him if he did I doubt I would hold out that long.
Bradley is all He can Be he should be on Army recruiting posters:)

it imperative that we now turn up the heat for withdrawal and stoke it with demand for jobs and increased revenues. The issue of the deficit must be morphed into the issues of the wars, jobs, union rights and taxin’ the rich

Yeah end both wars now or we tax the rich. End both wars now and create jobs!