Legal Commentary

Clinton's Complicity In Obama Administration's Treatment Of Manning And Firing Of Crowley

By Big Tent Democrat

My earlier condemnation of President Obama's endorsement of the abusive treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning is here. In that piece, I stupidly predicted State Dep't spokesman P.J. Crowley would not be dismissed because of his remarks criticizing the treatment of Manning. By now, you all know Crowley was in fact dismissed. This dismissal has triggered a new round of condemnations of President Obama and rightly so. (see Glenn Greenwald's roundup and this NYTimes editorial Frankly, I thought Crowley would not be dismissed because these condemnations would be inevitable. The political geniuses (set aside right and wrong, as pols always do) of the Obama team would know better. They didn't.

What I have not seen is criticism of Crowley's boss, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who should have defended Crowley. Instead, she is now complicit in the Obama Administration's disgraceful behavior. Shame on the Secretary of State. This is the most disgraceful moment of her tenure.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 15, 2011 (boomark / email).