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America is the world's leading human rights abuser. Straightaway as president, Obama pledged to close Guantanamo. It's still open. Torture remains policy. 

It's institutionalized in US-controlled overseas torture prisons and in America's homeland gulag.

On May 11, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an independent tribunal found George Bush, Dick Cheney, and other administration officials guilty of crimes of war and torture.

Obama continues the same cruel, degrading, and dehumanizing practices. Policy remained seamless from one administration to the next.

Bradley Manning is a national hero. He's also one of many torture victims. He remained in punishing confinement for 19 months untried. He's been subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment. It's unclear to what extent it improved. 

For 11 months, he was held in punishing isolation 23 hours a day.

One hour alone outside his cell, he was shackled, allowed to walk in circles, then returned to confinement the moment he stopped.

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