{"id":32915,"date":"2012-12-04T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32915"},"modified":"2012-12-04T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:35:05","slug":"huff-post-bradley-manning-lawyer-charges-obama-with-hypocrisy-over-whistleblower-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/04\/huff-post-bradley-manning-lawyer-charges-obama-with-hypocrisy-over-whistleblower-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Huff Post: Bradley Manning Lawyer Charges Obama With Hypocrisy Over Whistleblower Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for accused WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning suggested Monday that President Barack Obama&#8217;s position on protecting government whistleblowers is hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>Obama put his signature on a new law designed to stiffen protections for whistleblowers on Nov. 27. &#8220;As President Obama was signing this bill into law, Brad and I were in a courtroom,&#8221; Manning&#8217;s defense attorney, David E. Coombs, said Monday at the All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, D.C., in his first public appearance since taking the case more than two years ago. &#8220;How can you reconcile the two? I don&#8217;t know the answer to that question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manning, 24, is the Army private who allegedly gave WikiLeaks thousands of classified diplomatic cables about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, along with videos of two deadly airstrikes that killed non-combatants. When revealed by the controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks, the documents sent diplomatic shockwaves that reverberated across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/04\/bradley-manning-obama-whistleblower_n_2238383.html\" title=\"Bradley Manning\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for accused WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning suggested Monday that President Barack Obama&#8217;s position on protecting government whistleblowers is hypocritical. Obama put his signature on a new law designed to stiffen protections for whistleblowers on Nov. 27. &#8220;As President Obama was signing this bill into law, Brad and I were in a courtroom,&#8221; Manning&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32916,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915\/revisions\/32916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}