{"id":23031,"date":"2011-04-22T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23031"},"modified":"2011-04-22T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:26:02","slug":"obama-poisons-manning-jury-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23031","title":{"rendered":"Obama poisons Manning jury pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/andygreenberg\/2011\/04\/22\/video-of-obama-on-bradley-manning-he-broke-the-law\/\">discussion about Bradley Manning after a fund raiser<\/a>, President Obama tells someone that Manning &#8220;broke the law&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfmtUpd4id0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A rough transcript;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    People can have philosophical views about\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    [Questioner: unintelligible]<\/p>\n<p>    No, no, but look, I can\u2019t conduct diplomacy on an open source. That\u2019s not how\u2026the world works. If you\u2019re in the military, and\u2026I have to abide by certain classified information. If I was to release stuff, information that I\u2019m not authorized to release, I\u2019m breaking the law\u2026We\u2019re a nation of laws. We don\u2019t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    He broke the law.<\/p>\n<p>    [Questioner: &#8216;You can make it harder to break the law.&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>    Well, what he did was he dumped\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    [Questioner: something about President Nixon&#8217;s prosecution of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg]<\/p>\n<p>    It wasn\u2019t the same thing. What Ellsberg released wasn\u2019t classified in the same way. So. Anyway. Alright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for giving Manning&#8217;s lawyers ammunition, pal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion about Bradley Manning after a fund raiser, President Obama tells someone that Manning &hellip; <a title=\"Obama poisons Manning jury pool\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23031\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama poisons Manning jury pool<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}