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Bradley Manning Supporters Sing a $76,000 Song to Obama (Video)

Protesters who believe the Pentagon has treated Pfc. Bradley Manning inhumanely serenaded President Barack Obama today at a fundraiser, according to the Los Angeles Times. Manning is alleged to have passed on top secret information to WikiLeaks and has been confined at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico in Virginia. The military is now moving him to a prison in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

One of the singing protesters told the L.A. Times she paid $76,000 for her group to get into the fundraiser. The song for the president went a little something like this:

Obama later responded:

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ITV has a rundown of Manning's movements as of late:

http://youtu.be/BkiCRpP4Wq0

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