WH ousts Crowley from State

But what was the comment? As Jazz Shaw wrote a week ago, even FireDogLake managed to be honest about it: In response to PFC Manning's question, he was told that there was nothing he could do to downgrade his detainee status and that the Brig simply considered him a risk of self-harm. PFC Manning then remarked that the POI restrictions were "absurd" and sarcastically stated that if he wanted to harm himself, he could conceivably do so with the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops. "Joking" about suicide while in a brig is akin to joking about having a bomb when going through airport security. The authorities won't just assume you're stupid enough to joke about it and will take it seriously, because if they don't and the suspect was serious, they will get the blame for what follows.