Obama Assured By Pentagon That WikiLeaks Detainee Not Mistreated
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President Barack Obama said Pentagon officials have assured him that the treatment of Private First Class Bradley Manning, the detained soldier accused of providing classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, is “appropriate” and “meeting our basic standards.”
Obama declined comment at a press conference in Washington today on the reported remarks last night by State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley, at a forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that the military has “mistreated” Manning in a way that is “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.”