Reptile Forgotten: Guards Deny Trying to Intimidate Manning

Guards Deny Trying to Intimidate Manning

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Bradley Manning’s former guards testified today that they did not intimidate the man accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified cables to the anti-secrets website Wikileaks during a Jan. 18, 2011 incident that resulted in Manning being placed on a temporary suicide risk watch. Manning’s attorneys cite the event as a key reason why his pre-trial confinement at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va. , was unlawful and warrants the dismissal of the charges against him. Manning faces life imprisonment on charges that he leaked the classified military and diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. Details of those charges will come at a trial scheduled for February and are not being discussed at this week’s hearing, which is focused on his nine-month confinement at Quantico from July 2010 to April 2011. On Jan.

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Bradley Manning

Overall Sentiment: -0.0697051

Relevance: 0.889669

Sentiment	Quote
-0.13382	He said the Jan. 18incident “kind of reset things … we had to keep him on Prevention of Injury.”
0.0131393	“recreation call” in a room at the brig when he experienced an apparent anxiety attack. Manning said ...
-0.422566	Manning testified Thursday that he “lost my demeanor” ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.5432467 Mean: -0.18108223333333 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

William Fuller

Overall Sentiment: 0.116446

Relevance: 0.200141

Sentiment	Quote
0.193641	Fuller acknowledged that before the January incident he and another brig official had considered a downgrade because Manning was “doing pretty good.”
-0.137183	Fuller admitted that the conversations were really just quick interactions to see how Manning was doing.. When asked to provide examples of longer exchanges he had with other prisoners, Fuller provided brief sentences. That led David Coombs, Manning’s defense attorney to say sarcastically, “so if he’d thrown in more words then he would have classified as a Chatty Patty?”
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.056458 Mean: 0.028229 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Cline

Overall Sentiment: -0.115881

Relevance: 0.134442

Sentiment	Quote
-0.154775	Cline said he was puzzled when a supervisor later told him “we intimidated him or something like that.”
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.154775 Mean: -0.154775 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Jonathan Cline

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.106916

Sentiment	Quote
-0.154775	Cline said he was puzzled when a supervisor later told him “we intimidated him or something like that.”
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.154775 Mean: -0.154775 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Joshua Tankersly

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.102943

Sentiment	Quote
0.0869833	“It’s hard to put ‘average’ on such a high profile, when you have higher ups on base come and check through to that see all was OK,” Tankersly said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0869833 Mean: 0.0869833 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

David Coombs

Overall Sentiment: -0.129114

Relevance: 0.0847796

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