Is the Government Torturing Private Bradley Manning?

Bradley Manning, pictured to the left with Julian Assange, is the Army soldier who released documents to WikiLeaks. Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York, has written an opinion piece on his continuing incarceration at Special Quarters 2, in the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico. This links the Greenwald piece, Glenn Greenwald, The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, Salon.com (Dec. 15, 2010).

The article quotes people that know Manning who say he leaked the material to WikiLeaks after working on translations of allegedly insurgent literature in Iraq. When Manning completed the translation, he discovered the written material was a scholarly political discourse about corruption by the U.S. backed Iraq Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki. Manning took the discovery to an officer, but the officer, according to the account from Wired Magazine, did not wish to hear the truth about the allegedly insurgent material.

The discovery of our government's role in propping up a possibly corrupt regime in Iraq, led Manning to release the data to WikiLeaks. This suggest that Manning's purpose was not espionage, but rather patriotic even if misplaced.  He has not been granted a trial by the government.