Just a reminder: Desmond Tutu salutes Manning (and thank Hank, I am on the right side of history.)

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52. Well, that is my point. Defense attorneys have a duty to try to get the best deal for their clients

and considering the circumstances regarding Whistle Blowing in this country right now, there was no chance of any real justice for Manning, which their treatment of him proved beyond a doubt. So his defense abandoned any attempt to try to do that and turned to the only way to try to help him. They advised him to apologize.

It happens all the time, people who are completely innocent who have been wrongfully convicted, are often advised to take a plea deal where they will receive far less punishment in return for confessing to something they did not do. It is a huge flaw in our judicial system. And many of those who took such deals have later been exonerated, if they are lucky. But the stigma of admitting to wrongdoing is what the prosecution wants, in order to try to exonerate THEMSELVES for prosecutions they know were wrong.

His confession was coerced due to torture and threats of over 90 years in prison for being a Whistle Blower.