President Obama Says He'll Take the Pentagon's Word for It: Treatment of Bradley Manning Is Appropriate - Political Punch

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said this week that the treatment of Private Bradley Manning by the Pentagon is “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.”

Asked by ABC News if he agreed with that, President Obama said Friday that he’d “asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards.”

Pentagon officials, he said, “assure me that they are. I can't go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning's safety as well.”

Is it just me or did president Obama just pull a Bush trick out of his hat? Bush: Well the lawyers said torture was legal >yuck! yuck!< Obama: Well the Pentagon says everything's fine >har! har!< Neither man gives a shit about our constitutional rights, let alone private Manning's.