This is true; it's become pretty standard practice to offer immunity, then compel testimony with Fifth Amendment protections waived. Presumably that's what mot

This is true; it's become pretty standard practice to offer immunity, then compel testimony with Fifth Amendment protections waived. Presumably that's what motivated Manning's focus on the private hearing and invocation of the Sixth amendment. Manning isn't the one being charged at the hearing, but compelling private testimony under threat of incarceration looks rather like a de facto private trial.