NOT ALL CONSERVATIVES ARE LIKE MARK LEVIN & THE BAGGERS

You may recall that several prominent conservatives were alarmed at the Bush Administration's violations of the 4th Amendment although you didn't hear much about that on rightwing talk radio.  I suspect we won't hear much about this condemnation of the treatment of Bradley Manning by an editor of the National Review Online:

Robert VerBruggen declared Tuesday that there was "no excuse" for subjecting Manning, who has not been convicted of a crime, to harsh conditions.

"He has yet to be convicted of a crime -- and, regardless, prisons should avoid inflicting arbitrary and pointless miseries on their charges," VerBruggen wrote.

"On at least two and possibly three occasions, prison officials have used their discretion to subject Manning to harsher procedures than would normally be used under the brig’s policies. Manning’s treatment may well be legal, as the general counsels of the Departments of Defense and of the Navy found — the policies in question are just guidelines — but that doesn’t make it right," he added.