{"id":20360,"date":"2013-06-12T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20360"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:30:22","slug":"sign-the-petition-to-free-bradley-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/sign-the-petition-to-free-bradley-manning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign the Petition to Free Bradley Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/free-bradley-manning\/6qFjYRhj\"><strong>Sign the petition<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute\/prosecute him as a leaker, it&#8217;s easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes by way of WikiLeaks. <\/p>\n<p>Manning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/21\/judge-bradley-manning-trial-will-include-classified-portions\/\">partially-secret military trial<\/a> is just now getting under way, even though he was arrested in May of 2010 and the Uniform Code of Military Justice explicitly guarantees the right to a speedy trial, which it specifies as 120 days.<\/p>\n<p>During those years of detention Manning was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/12\/06\/mannings-pretrial-hearing-focuses-on-abusive-treatment\/\">repeatedly subjected to abuse<\/a> by security forces, with the scandals around his mistreatment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2013\/05\/29\/Report-Questions-raised-about-all-reasons-behind-Quantico-closing\/UPI-83491369842337\/\">Quantico getting so bad<\/a> that they actually ended up closing the whole site permanently. <\/p>\n<p>Manning&#8217;s crime is materially no different than Snowden&#8217;s: a desire to make the American public aware of things we desperately needed to know. 3+ years of pre-trial abuse is already more than enough for that, and it&#8217;s time to let Bradley go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign the petition With all the talk about Edward Snowden and the attempts to persecute\/prosecute him as a leaker, it&#8217;s easy to forget that this battle is already going on with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the source of a large amount of information on US overseas war crimes by way of WikiLeaks. Manning&#8217;s partially-secret military trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20361,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360\/revisions\/20361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20360"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}