{"id":32918,"date":"2012-12-05T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32918"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:10:22","slug":"live-report-from-bradley-manning-pre-trial-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/05\/live-report-from-bradley-manning-pre-trial-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Report from Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest120612\/2012_12_06_gosztola.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest120612\/2012_12_06_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/manning_pretrial.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Bradley Manning\u2019s \u201cunlawful pretrial punishment\u201d hearing continues today, following six days of testimonies including from Manning himself. Statements were also made by Master Sergeant Craig Blenis and Chief Warrant Officer James Averhart, both Brig supervisors in the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia during Manning\u2019s incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on Manning\u2019s time in Quantico, the lengthy testimonies have pushed the official trial\u2019s start date to March 2013 with six additional pretrial hearings scheduled over the next two weeks. During these pre-trial hearings the government needs to prove that there was a \u201clegitimate government objective\u201d to justify Manning\u2019s designation as a maximum custody detainee. <\/p>\n<p>According to military legal analysts, Manning\u2019s defense has \u201ca very low threshold\u201d to prove how the young soldier was mistreated during his 845 days of pretrial punishment \u2013 Manning\u2019s lawyers are requesting a 10-1 credit for each day spent in confinement.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of the 845 days of Manning\u2019s incarceration were spent on \u201csuicide watch, a high security designation that the government claimed was for Manning\u2019s own good. A trove of 600 emails has revealed that military psychiatrists disagreed with the assessment but their recommendations were ignored by the officers in charge. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the accounts heard thus far indicate that the intense security around Manning may have been ordered from high-level commanding officers. According to Kevin Gosztola, reporting for FireDogLake.com, Lieutenant General George Flynn, the Quantico field base commander, rarely saw the weekly reports of Manning\u2019s treatment and instead concerned himself with staying ahead of the \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d in the media. <\/p>\n<p>Officers created comprehensive accounts, breaking down media coverage \u201cby the type of media and whether the story was favorable to Quantico or not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This week the media watch dog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) issued an alert pointing out how the mainstream media has overall neglected to cover the pre-trial hearing in much detail. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kevin Gosztola, a reporter for FireDogLake.com, covering the trial of Bradley Manning, and co-author of &#8220;Truth &#038; Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Manning\u2019s \u201cunlawful pretrial punishment\u201d hearing continues today, following six days of testimonies including from Manning himself. Statements were also made by Master Sergeant Craig Blenis and Chief Warrant Officer James Averhart, both Brig supervisors in the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia during Manning\u2019s incarceration. Focusing on Manning\u2019s time in Quantico, the lengthy testimonies [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918","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=32918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32936,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918\/revisions\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}