The Bradley Manning Torture Accountability Project

rom there, blogs that barely existed even five years ago -- such as FDL -- coordinated a highly effective activism campaign to publicize and protest these conditions. Blog readers complained en masse to the U.N. and Amnesty International, which led to a formal investigation by the former and a formal condemnation and protest campaign from the latter. A few isolated media figures and politicians -- who regularly read blogs -- picked up the cause, with MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan providing ample coverage and Dennis Kucinich demanding official access to Manning and loudly complaining when it was denied (along with constant coverage from The Guardian). Rather than rely on the mediation of establishment journalists and editors, Manning's counsel largely confined his public commentary to his own newly-created blog, where he was able to control the content, avoid distorting editing practices, and be heard in full.

The alleged leaker, intelligence specialist Private First Class Bradley Manning, is now in Quantico military prison in Virginia, where he has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest in July 2010. On April 10, nearly 300 top legal scholars, authors and experts signed a letter condemning his treatment as torture. Evan Knappenberger, an Iraq War veteran and former intelligence specialist in the Army, graduated from the same intelligence school as Bradley Manning in May 2004 and was given secret clearance.

THE Welsh mother of imprisoned Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning has made an impassioned plea for help to Foreign Secretary William Hague.

A top United Nations official has said that he was “deeply disappointed and frustrated by the prevarication of the United States government,” after attempting to meet with Bradley Manning, the former army intelligence officer incarcerated on suspicion of leaking government data to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website.

Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking secret cables to the Wikileaks website, has been subjected to "cruel and unnecessary" treatment by US authorities, Labour MP Ann Clwyd has said.

Ex-US state department spokesman PJ Crowley, who quit after criticising the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks, has told the BBC he has no regrets.

Juan Mendez, an independent special envoy to the United Nations on torture, criticized the US military on Tuesday for denying him unmonitored access to Bradley Manning, a detained American soldier accused of leaking secret US documents to whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.

If all had gone according to plan–alleged plan, at least–Bradley Manning would be an unknown Army private with a massive secret, not a household name. As it is, the young soldier accused of leaking millions of pages of documents to WikiLeaks has come to be seen as one of the most influential people in the world. Even more influential, in the temperamental opinion of the Internet, than Julian Assange himself.

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is such a seldom used Writ anymore and has been eroded by decisions of the S.Ct. in the past decade or so to limit its use. However, it seems from the brief updating I've done on my knowledge of the Writ that Pvt. Bradley Manning's situation would be very appropriate. This assumes that the facts are at least somewhat as the news and net reports have reported. I just thought about it's possible application today and am astonished that the law professors mentioned below have not suggested its use. Perhaps there IS some superseding law which would prevent its use but perhaps, like me, it is so little used that they just did not think of it either.