Manning Takes the Stand: Soldier Testifies About Torture and Two-Plus Year Imprisonment

Manning Testifies About His Torture; Was it Aimed at Turning Him on Assange? 

by TRNN

 Michael Ratner: Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment; offers to plea to lesser charges.

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Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He is currently a legal adviser to Wikileaks and Julian Assange. He and CCR brought the first case challenging the Guantanamo detentions and continue in their efforts to close Guantanamo. He taught at Yale Law School, and Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. His current books include "Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in the Twenty-First Century America," and “ Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder.” NOTE: Mr. Ratner speaks on his own behalf and not for any organization with which he is affiliated.