Manning wants Obama and Clinton as witnesses
source: http://rt.com/usa/news/manning-obama-clinton-coombs-101/
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In a request made Friday, Manning’s attorney provided a 20-page list of defense witnesses that they are asking to appear at the hearing — among them US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After taking his plea to the courtroom, attorney David Coombs made the list publically available on the Internet over the weekend.
The Article 32 hearing, scheduled to begin on December 16, serves as the military’s own version of a grand jury hearing and will determine if the case against Manning needs to be referred to a full-scale court martial. The US military alleges that Manning passed along top-secret documents detrimental to the country’s security to Julian Assange’s WikIleaks website, though his attorneys feel like they have a strong case in support of their client. Despite this, Manning has been held under inhumane conditions for over a year-and-a-half since being detained by American officials.
Should President Obama be subpoenaed to stand trial, Manning’s attorney is expected to question the commander-in-chief over comments that he made earlier this year against Manning. Speaking during a fundraiser in April, the president insisted that the soldier “broke the law,” which the defense says represented “unlawful command influence.”
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Americans, this is ground zero in our effort to hold Presidents accountable to the American people for their actions. There can be no immunity from the law for any public official who isn't a tyrant. Obama, as commander in chief, unquestionably convicted Manning without due process and a trial in the court of public opinion. Obama, a purported constitutional scholar, and president of a democratic republic, renounced and trounced our constitutional principle of "innocent until proven guilty" with his assertions! Please join in demanding accountability of this president, and all presidents. Without accountability, you and I will be bled financially dry, and thousands of our loved ones slaughtered, every time a president wants to go storming for proverbial non existent "weapons of mass destruction". The issue is no different, only the scale is different. Accountability now, or never.
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