I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.
I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.