U.N. Torture Investigator Denied Unsupervised Access to Manning

This story just won't go away. President Obama really needs to do more than just take the military's word for it. I was never uncynical enough to expect him to expose himself to the charge of weakness on National Security--he hasn't done a single thing like that after his first few months in office. But there's doing nothing and then there's blatantly doing nothing. This is the latter and it's incredibly stupid.

Ironically, Manning might have been treated better had he been caught in 2007 or 2008. Bush, buffeted by criticism over his official torture program enhanced interrogation program would have been a colossal idiot to let this sort of thing go on with a non-Muslim white American citizen. Wait, never mind. I take it back: Manning's lucky he wasn't caught back then.