Manning's commander can also order him to be held in military confinement until the court marital hearing (the same as denying bail).
That's were Manning is at right now in the system. He's in jail (bail denied) awaiting trial.
Translation: "We'll torture him as long as we want until we're good and ready to procede with official trappings of justice--then we'll do it some more"
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Dec 23, 2010 05:24 ET
U.N. to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning
By Glenn Greenwald....The U.S. is one of the world's most prolific practitioners of prolonged solitary confinement: unsurprising given that it enjoys the distinction of being the world's largest Prison State and the Western world's most merciless one. As NPR noted in 2006, there are roughly 25,000 prisoners in the U.S. kept in those conditions. But the vast, vast majority of them -- unlike Manning -- have actually been convicted of crimes.
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As is true for so much of what it does, the U.S. Government routinely condemns similar acts -- the use of prolonged solitary confinement in its most extreme forms and lengthy pretrial detention -- when used by other countries. See, for instance....
