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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSo while we’re all waiting for the judge to hand down Manning’s sentence, the LA Times<\/a> reports that Breanna’s defense team’s strategy during the sentencing hearing is that his supervisors shouldn’t have let him near classified material in a “stop me before I kill again” defense;<\/p>\n He was late for meetings, and once curled in a fetal position on a storage room floor and clutched his head, a knife at his feet. He carved the words “I want” into a chair.<\/p>\n Another time, he pounded his fists and flipped over a table of computers before he was wrestled into submission. And in April 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning emailed his sergeant a mug shot of himself wearing makeup, dark lipstick and a flowing blonde wig.<\/p>\n “This is my problem,” he wrote in the email. “I have had signs of it for a very long time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While I agree with the larger point, his supervisors should have restricted his access to classified material, in fact they should have thrown his tiny ass out of the Army and out onto the street, but that doesn’t not make him a criminal deserving punishment;<\/p>\n Defense lawyers are seeking to persuade a military judge not to impose the maximum 90-year sentence on Manning, who was convicted last month of espionage and other charges related to the illegal disclosures. They are trying to show that Army commanders ignored signs that the Oklahoma-born soldier was mentally unstable and was nearing a breakdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I know this is the only defense that’s available to the lawyers, but it’s still pretty lame. It doesn’t change what he did, and the people who lost their lives because of his treachery don’t get to make excuses. If he’s only getting jail time and no rope stretching time, he should feel lucky.<\/p>\n One of our close friends sent this from BuzzFeed<\/a>; Breanna Manning’s selfie;<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"