Originally Posted by Rochard

Fuck Manning.

If you are a flight risk or a danger to society, they can lock you up until the trial. In this case, he is a threat to national security. I would imagine they have every right to lock him up.

At the same time he is also a flight risk - dozens of companies would love to have access to information he has in his head, and wikkileaks would love to snag him up and move him to a country where we can't get to him.