Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes

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113. Of course investigations are reserved for others

It will never happen. We all know that!
I'll bet the evidence is there. From the secret oil meetings, to the Office Of Special Plans, to Plame, to yellowcake, to torture and more.
As long as Cheney and the rest are not even being investigated, I'll stand up for Manning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1366141064-59d+74AzT3+0a3jFGpM9eQ

U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: April 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.

DOCUMENT: Constitution Project’s Report on Detainee Treatment
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/16/world/16torture-report.html?ref=world
Indisputable Torture (April 17, 2013)

The sweeping, 600-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group.

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How Cheney aggregated power at key national security centers -- the Pentagon, State and White House -- and lists the positions his friends and allies have held during the time period leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq.

George W. Bush
President
2001-present

Dick Cheney
Vice President
2001-present


Defense Department

State
Department

Office of the Vice President

National Security Council

Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
2001-present


Colin Powell
Secretary of State
2001-2005

"Scooter" Libby
Chief of Staff to the Vice President
2001-2005


Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor
2001-2005

Richard Armitage
Deputy Secretary
of State
2001-2005

David Addington
Counsel to the
Vice President
2001-2005


Stephen Hadley
Deputy National Security Advisor
2001-2005


Paul Wolfowitz
Deputy Secretary
of Defense
2001-2005


John Bolton
Under Sec. of State for Arms Control
2001-2005


William J. Luti
Special Advisor to the Vice President
2001-2002


Douglas Feith
Under Secretary for Policy
2001-2005


Stephen Cambone
Under Sec. for Intelligence
2003-present