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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Bradley Manning: top US legal scholars voice outrage at 'torture'
Ed Pilkington
The Guardian
More than 250 of America's most eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged
WikiLeaks
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Bradley Manning
, contesting that his "degrading and inhumane conditions" are illegal, unconstitutional and could even amount to torture.
The list of signatories includes Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be America's foremost liberal authority on constitutional law. He taught constitutional law to Barack Obama and was a key backer of his 2008 presidential campaign.
Tribe joined the Obama administration last year as a legal adviser in the justice department, a post he held until three months ago.
He told the Guardian he signed the letter because Manning appeared to have been treated in a way that "is not only shameful but unconstitutional" as he awaits court martial in Quantico marine base in Virginia.
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