Chief State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley quit on Sunday after causing a stir by describing the military's treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as "ridiculous" and "stupid," pointed words that forced President Barack Obama to defend the detention as appropriate.
"Given the impact of my remarks, for which I take full responsibility, I have submitted my resignation" to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a department statement attributed to the office of the spokesman. In a separate statement released simultaneously, Clinton said she had accepted the resignation "with regret."
Crowley's comments about the conditions for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., reverberated quickly, from the small audience in Massachusetts where Crowley spoke, to a White House news conference Friday where Obama was asked to weigh in on the treatment of the 23-year-old believed responsible for the largest leak of classified American documents ever.
Manning is being held in solitary confinement for all but an hour every day, and is stripped naked each night and given a suicide-proof smock to wear to bed. His lawyer calls the treatment degrading. Amnesty International says the treatment may violate Manning's human rights.
Did Crowley really think he could speak his mind and get away with it? You can't do that in America! Shame on President Obama for allowing an American citizen who hasn't even had a trial yet to be tortured like this and damn George Bush for his role in bringing "legal" torture to America so it could be used against Americans now. This is how the Germans got started folks. One liberty gone here, one there; don't worry we won't abuse our authority. Minority groups and "undesirables" are to blame! Put them all in prisons! A war here, a war there. We had to attack them because they were a threat to our security!
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