Nice to See This Getting Some Mainstream Coverage

It's not the Washington Post or the New York Times, but my hometown paper, The Baltimore Sun has an Op/Ed, Why is the United States torturing Private Manning?

It is significant that a regular columnist, WBAL talk jock Ron Smith, both condemned the treatment, and used the word "Torture."

It is also significant that the members of the White House press corps(e) are actually starting question Obama on this

Smith is described as a "Paleoconservative" in Wikipedia, though he had enough integrity to describe Bush, Jr. as "Joe Isuzu", so it is likely that hostility to or distrust of Obama may have something to do with his opinions, but it is still significant that people are starting to use the word "torture" do describe what he calls, " the field-stripping of a young man's mind."