WikiLeaks suspect's treatment 'stupid,' U.S. official says

By Ellen Nakashima

Washington Post
March 11, 2011

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley has called the treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley E. Manning, an Army private whom military jailers forced to sleep naked for several days last week, "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid."

Crowley made his remarks Thursday to a small audience in Cambridge, Mass., during a talk on "the benefits of new media as it relates to foreign policy," according to Philippa Thomas, a BBC reporter who is a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University, writing in her personal blog.

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