The
two-week hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland, lasted far longer than intended and
turned into a dramatic spectacle in which Manning effectively turned his
court-martial on its head and put the US military on trial. In his closing
argument, the soldier's main civilian lawyer, David Coombs, said that the most
amazing element of his nine-month solitary confinement under suicide-prevention
restrictions at the marine brig in Quantico, Virginia, was that his spirit had
remained unbroken. "Being watched or viewed almost as a zoo animal for that
period of time has to weigh on somebody's psyche," Coombs told the court.
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