{"id":9426,"date":"2011-03-13T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2011-03-13T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T18:03:27","slug":"state-dept-spokesman-out-after-slamming-treatment-of-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/state-dept-spokesman-out-after-slamming-treatment-of-manning\/","title":{"rendered":"State Dept Spokesman Out After Slamming Mistreatment of Bradley Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley abruptly &#8220;resigned&#8221; today.<\/p>\n<p>Michael van Poppel at BNO News <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mpoppel\/statuses\/46975953938821120\">noted <\/a>on Twitter after the story broke, &#8220;Crowley released a statement on Yemen just 2 hours ago. Seems really abrupt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/POLITICS\/03\/13\/crowley.stepping.down\/\">CNN reports<\/a> that Crowley came under pressure from the White House to quit after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/11\/pj-crowley-bradley-manning-treatment-_n_834611.html\">making comments<\/a> about the Pentagon&#8217;s treatment of Army private Bradley Manning, who is suspected of leaking documents to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>Crowley, speaking at an MIT seminar in Boston, Assistant Secretary of State For Public Affairs P.J. Crowley said Manning is being &#8220;mistreated&#8221; in the military brig at Quantico, Virginia. &#8220;What is being done to Bradley Manning is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid on the part of the department of defense,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It is great when government officials make these kinds of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/m\/michaelkin399281.html\">gaffes<\/a>.&#8221;   It&#8217;s unfortunate that he didn&#8217;t get to stay awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley abruptly &#8220;resigned&#8221; today. Michael van Poppel at BNO News noted on Twitter after the story broke, &#8220;Crowley released a statement on Yemen just 2 hours ago. Seems really abrupt.&#8221; CNN reports that Crowley came under pressure from the White House to quit after making comments about the Pentagon&#8217;s treatment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-9426","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\/9426","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9428,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}