“Remember, all of this is transpiring during a presidential term that was supposed to be the most transparent in history. Obama repeatedly boasted that the once-secret wheelings and dealings of federal agencies, congressmen, lobbyists—and, ostensibly, the military—would be revealed to all. He’d utilize the latest technology to open up those cloistered proceedings. Yet five years into this newfangled era of transparent government, a pro-free press nonprofit has to fight tooth and nail merely to be allowed to bring a steno machine into the vicinity of a military trial. Where, we might add, a young man stands to spend the rest of his life in prison for making transparent the wrongdoing that occurred throughout a war the president himself considered illegitimate. Now that’s absurd.” — The Only Public Transcript of the Bradley Manning Trial Will Be Tapped Out on a Crowd-Funded Typewriter (via azspot)
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:04:27 +0000
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