Musician and activist Graham Nash tells Cenk why he felt compelled to write a song in defense of Bradley Manning: “The reason I called it ‘Almost Gone’ is his lawyer said he did not know who his client was any more, because his mind was almost gone,” from the months of solitary confinement and abuse Manning suffered while being held before trial. “My own belief is that he’s a hero. He saw things in the Iraq War that he felt needed sunshine on. He felt that he was doing his duty to his country first. They want to break Bradley Manning…so that he fingers Julian Assange at WikiLeaks.”
Nash says he suspects that accusations of sexual harassment against Assange in Sweden are being driven by Karl Rove’s relationship to that country’s premier. “Bradley Manning pulled back the curtain — it’s almost like the Wizard of Oz. That’s his crime. I don’t believe that the American government could possibly let WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning get away with this. It shakes the very foundation of their power.”
