President Obama and Private Manning

President Obama has been "assured" by the Pentagon that the treatment of Bradley Manning while in detention meets U.S. standards. Statement Department spokesman P.J. Crowley disagrees with that assessment and has resigned ( i.e. been fired) as a result of his public statements to that effect. The incident is disturbing. Not only does the treatment of Private Manning, the alleged Wikileaks leaker, appear to me to be inhumane and degrading, but it yet again points out the hypocrisy of those who continue to defend President Obama. If George Bush had said that he had been assured by the Pentagon that the treatment accorded to detainees met U.S. standards and was appropriate, would he have received such a free pass? No need to answer - this was a rhetorical question.