Military will keep stripping accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning naked every night as ongoing policy

That headline is culled from Twitter and Greg Mitchell, whose WikiLeaks blog is the go-to place for WikiLeaky news. The full tweet:

Now military says it will keep stripping Bradley Manning naked every night, indefinitely, as ongoing policy. http://bit.ly/eCunqy

Mitchell points us to this, from Glenn Greenwald:

The treatment of Manning is now so repulsive that it even lies beyond what at least some of the most devoted Obama admirers are willing to defend.

Punishment for whistle-blowers. Don't forget; that's Manning's alleged crime. Greenwald has more; he's our other go-to guy and his piece is well worth your time.

I'll say again, as others have said: The purpose of torture is to elicit a false confession. If this were Team Bush at the helm, the whole left world would be in arms.

At what point is the price of power too great?

GP