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And our current "progressive" president is still (like all U.S. presidents) in the pockets of the big money interests:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/20/headlines/obama_tops_gop_candidates_in_wall_st_donations

"New figures show President Obama continues to pull in huge donations from the financial sector, with more money from Wall Street this year than all other Republican presidential candidates combined. According to the Washington Post, Obama has raised a total of $15.6 million from banks and other financial firms, with nearly $12 million of that going to the Democratic National Committee. Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has raised less than half that much from Wall Street, around $7.5 million. A top banking executive and Obama fundraiser told the Washington Post that reports of Wall Street antagonism toward Obama "are exaggerated and overblown ... [but] it probably helps from a political perspective if he’s not seen as a Wall Street guy.""

john from office, you wrote:

"Manning is a soldier, not a private person. His crime was treason. His situation is different."

A private person can be accused of the crime of treason too (e.g., the Rosenbergs). Perhaps you meant that there are certain military laws which prohibited Manning from doing what he did?

It's an old question, is the King above the law?

"If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law."- Louis Brandeis. I completely agree w Glen Greenwald and his pointing out this longstanding travesty of justice is a great public service. For the elected officials to have been true to the country's avowed principles, the pardon of Nixon should have come AFTER a trial. After Ford's death, the late Sen Kennedy publicly stated that he thought the pardon had been justified.... astonishing. Do we believe in the rule of law, or is it just lip-service?

How does Mr. Greenwald interpret the endless investigations into Bill Clinton in this era of elite immunity? And why might Obama be trying so hard to ignore abuses of power despite the fact that the Clinton experience suggests that he will not be given the same courtesy?

I agree systemic fraud, someone should have gone to jail for 2008 - bush, cheney and a few others!!

Just wondering if Glenn knows much about the impact of zealously punishing whistleblowers. I'm particularly thinking about the impact of the military whistleblowers who tried to speak out against torture and were haunted by their experiences. Does Glenn know how this affected continued systemic impunity for US detainee abuse and torture?

I read about this in the book "None of Us Were Like This Before." It seems like a very important story, and one that reveals how quashing whistleblowers has a real impact on undermining accountability. I hope he can answer my question. Thanks!

Talk about unbalanced: Another all-male Lopate show. As is usual, women's views on WNYC are hard to hear during Lopate's show.
If i could i would take back my donation to the station!

Manning is a soldier, not a private person. His crime was treason. His situation is different.

A further point: If you, as a regular citizen, are convicted of a crime, forget about getting a job.

But the Wall Street criminals, the Bush and Obama war criminals, aren't just getting away with their crimes, they're profiting. Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, and the rest, have made millions from their crimes. The Wall Street criminals have made billions.

Crime is career and life destroying for us. (So we have reasons to obey the law.) Crime is very profitable for the 1%.

Didn't Andrew Jackson say, when the Supreme Court ruled in a way he didn't like, "Gentlemen, you have rendered your decision. Now I encourage you to enforce it." ?
There is nothing new in politicians thumbing the scales of justice. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight against it, but it undermines one's credibility to suggest it is a recent development.

There has always been inequality, since the cave. It is about money and influence. Read Animal Farm again please.

Even the Biblical prophets stated that judged must favor neither the rich NOR the poor. That all, rich and poor, must stand equal before the law.

Yeah Nixon and Lindsay Lohan.

I admire Glenn a lot.

I'd like to know if he reads Fidel Castro (his reflections are translated into english as soon as they are published in that countrie's national paper-website)?

Like him or not, is the greatest statesman alive.., and Glenn's judicial input in all his works and opinions, based on of the rule of law, reminds me of the ex-cuban president (a lawyer before anything).