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Daniel Ellsberg the 79 year old former US military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post about the top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, has along with other demonstrators been arrested at a demonstration in support of currently detained whistleblower Bradley Manning outside the Marine Corps Brig at Quantico. Hundreds of protestors assembled outside the base where Bradley Manning is being held on dozens of charges relating to his leak of classified diplomatic cables and video to Wikileaks. The protestors primary concern relates to allegations of torture and punitive treatments being applied to Manning by his military jailors.

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Philip J Crowley the 59 year old US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs has resigned from his role in the Obama Administration following his controversial comments on the Pentagon’s mistreatment of its military prisoner U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, suspected of providing classified diplomatic cables to Wikileaks the whistleblower website. Crowley told an audience at MIT that while Manning was incarcerated in the right place, his mistreatment while in custody was ridiculous stupid and counter-productive. Crowley in his letter of resignation stated that while the “unauthorized disclosure of classified information is a serious crime under U.S. law … exercise of power in today’s challenging times and relentless media environment must be prudent and consistent with our laws and values.”

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