Greenwald is a humorist at best, and a publicist at worst, a trained shark advocating his client's interest by the media. Same as those shilling for Assange to promote their services -- which never involve going to jail and discomfort except when attention wane. A full-blown, no pun, Media Ho. Military brigs are that, not civilian prisons, not movies and pederastic fantasies. Their regulations are online, including that for Quantico Marine Brig, nothing secret about them. Glenn seems not to have read the regs, or found them too inmate-considerate and is lying as trained to do. Manning is not in the kind of comical isolation Greenwald hoots. He receives regular visits from his family and his legal team. He sees medical staff, janitorial staff, guards and their overseers, the military legal team and its Inspector General. Visits from gawking officers and civilians eyeing the celebrity inmate to be sure there will be no grounds for neglect or abuse, which is media-driven defense SOP. What Manning luckily avoids is guard duty, kitchen police, vile MREs and miscooked slop, foot and crotch rot, lice, bedbugs and scabies, STDs if fatihful to his hands and does not pig-kiss the guards for favors, parades and field marches and bivouacs, getting coffee for his hung-over officers, enduring homophobes, unit inspections, armaments practice, stenching squad rooms, sadistic harassment by non-com and officer lifers, sand storms and leaking and muddy tent cities, burning fecal waste and scrubbing latrines, dropping the soap taunts, incoming fire and IEDs, trooper drunks, thieves, rapists, murderers, smokers and weightlifters. Visiting generals and politicians, inane work and toxic working conditions, on and on, kind of like what Glenn experienced in torturous law school, slave-driving law firm and neurotic love shack in Brazil. This is not to suggest that Manning should not be out of jail, but is threatened by those who want him there for their own purposes, his supporters and opponents. To them he is more valuable outside than in to these predators as Assange now appreciates. Manning and Assange share the ambition for jail time as premium PR, both have bragged about that, claim to have studied the success of a long-line of role models. Manning confessed to Lamo with that in mind. Did Assange use the women for that, nah, too obvious. The trials will be shows of prolonged ecstacy among the hordes, uh, Hos.