Obama on Bradley Manning: “He broke the law”

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Posted on 04.22.11
By murielkane
Categories: Nation

Following a fundraising speech on Thursday, President Obama was asked about the case of whistleblower Bradley Manning.

He responded, “I can’t conduct diplomacy on an open source. That’s not how…the world works. If you’re in the military, and — I have to abide by certain classified information. If I was to release stuff that I’m not authorized to release, I’m breaking the law…We’re a nation of laws. We don’t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate… He broke the law.”

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Come on, Democrats, I'm waiting to hear you bend over backwards to defend Obama on this one. I wanna see how far your twist and pretzelify your values to get around this and claim that PFC Manning, minus even a dog-and-pony show trial, is 'guilty' like our President just DECLARED him to be on the record.

 

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