[Peace-discuss] Manning's lawyer on C-Span - Mon Dec 3 @ 6p CST

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Pls check out the links and info in this post. Sad but hopeful (finally).

--- On Fri, 11/30/12, Bradley Manning Support Network <contact-bmsn at bradleymanning.org> wrote:
Bradley's first testimony in court: On unlawful pretrial punishment at Quantico.





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Bradley Manning takes the stand, details months of abuse
Nine months in solitary ordered by brig command against the recommendations of three mental health professionals. [Manning's lawyer] David Coombs to speak in Washington, DC on December 3rd, and talk to be broadcast by CSPAN. 
 Bradley Manning took the stand for the first time this week at the motions hearings addressing his unlawful pretrial punishment at Quantico prison. Three mental health professionals who evaluated Bradley during his nine month detention in the Quantico brig, revealed that Bradley Manning posed little to no risk and that their ongoing recommendations to remove Bradley from the aggravating and abusive conditions were ignored by the brig command.
 Further, testimony by Quantico officers revealed that while brig officials claimed to be isolating Bradley due to his mental health, that in reality the high profile nature of the case, and a prior suicide at Quantico brig, had resulted in a highly sensitive environment where senior officers gave directives to have Bradley Manning held in an extreme "Prevention of Injury" (POI) status throughout his stay. This directive led to the unheard of situation where brig commanders ignored the recommendations of the mental health professionals, and left Bradley Manning to endure nine months in solitary, segregated, conditions that a psychiatrist associated with interrogation techniques harsher than the treatment he had seen given to deathrow inmates. Further, officials deceived Bradley as to the reasons he was being kept in segregated POI status. Bradley's calls to improve his situation were ignored by the military command, and it was revealed that Quantico
 commanders colluded to block an independant review of his conditions. 








Supporters out in the rain during the November 27th Protest at Fort Meade


In defending the Quantico command decisions to keep Bradley Manning isolated in Prevention of Injury status, officers attempted to portray normal behaviors as being erratic - such as that he would dance in his cell and make faces in a mirror. Bradley took the stand Thursday, testifying that yes indeed he danced in his cell as there was little else he could do. He was not permitted to lean his back against the walls of his cell during day hours, nor was he allowed to exercise in it. Dancing was however not a prohibited activity and it allowed him to move around. Bradley also testified that yes, indeed, he spend a lot of time looking in the mirror as "it was the most interesting thing in his cell." Considering that he was not permitted to communicate with people or do anything else, three mental health professionals testified that this behavior was not only normal, but healthy, and that Bradley did a remarkable job enduring such a prolongued and abusive
 incarceration. 
It was also revealed that the Quantico brig was ill prepared for long term pretrial confinement as it lacked the necessary staff to handle Bradley's detainment, and that in fact, it was not prepared to handle any detainee for longer than three months. Contrasts were drawn against other prisons, such as Ft. Leavenworth where Bradley was eventually transfered,
where keeping prisoners isolated for so long was unheard of, and completely against regulation. 

Reporting from the Courtroom 


November 27th
"Military feared independent reviews of Bradley’s treatment"



November 28th
"Quantico psychiatrist says Bradley treated worse than death row"



November 29th.
"Bradley takes the stand to describe abuse, brig deception"



Watch the report from Democracy Now!

Exclusive presentation by Bradley's attorney

Washington DC. December 3rd
Talk will be broadcast on CSPAN and live streamed at www.bradleymanning.org
December 3, 2012

Washington, DC

6pm doors/refreshments - 7pm event
All Souls Church Unitarian

1500 Harvard Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009

(2 blocks from the Columbia Hts Metro Station, Yellow/Green lines; also near the S2, S4, H8 and 42 bus lines)

On December 3, 2012, Army PFC Bradley Manning’s civilian defense lawyer David Coombs will make his first ever public appearance to provide an overview of pending defense motions before the court and other facts regarding U.S. v. Manning. Mr. Coombs is expected to focus on the unlawful pretrial punishment that PFC Manning was subjected to for nine months while at the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia – the subject of international outrage and a UN investigation. 




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