FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The
former security chief at the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base says an
Army private suspected of leaking U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website
was kept tightly confined partly because of another prisoner's suicide.
Marine Col. Robert Oltman
testified Wednesday at a pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning at
Fort Meade. Manning's lawyers are seeking dismissal of all charges,
claiming his pretrial confinement in the Quantico brig was excessively
harsh.
Manning was locked up alone in a small cell for nearly nine months and had to sleep naked for several nights.
Oltman says the recent
suicide of another detainee after his custody status was reduced made
Oltman skeptical about a psychiatrist's recommendation to ease Manning's
confinement conditions.
Oltman told medical
staffers that Manning should remain in highly restrictive confinement
unless senior officers decided otherwise.
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