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Chelsea Manning released from Virginia jail after 62 days – CNNPolitics

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Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from federal custody after spending about two months in jail for refusing to testify about her disclosure of military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks in 2010, according to a statement from her legal team.

But Manning could soon return to jail, as her lawyers indicated that she would again refuse to testify in response to a separate subpoena received while she was detained.
Manning, who served about seven years in prison for the massive leak, objected to the questioning in a grand jury appearance in March that was apparently part of a continued effort by federal prosecutors investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. She was subsequently held in contempt, and a federal appeals court rejected her argument for release — that her rights were violated by the subpoena proceedings and the federal prosecutors purportedly seeking to entrap her — in April.
Manning was released from the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday after 62 days because the grand jury that had demanded her testimony was no longer sitting, according to the statement.
The second subpoena would have her appear before a different grand jury next week, “but for (the) same questions,” according to a tweet posted on Manning’s Twitter account Thursday night.
“It is therefore conceivable that she will once again be held in contempt of court, and be returned to the custody of the Alexandria Detention Center, possibly as soon as next Thursday, May 16,” Manning’s team said in the statement. “Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions.”
Manning had formally asked the court to release her earlier this month, saying “nothing will convince me to testify,” according to documents filed in the Eastern District of Virginia court. Representatives for Manning had previously said she was kept in her cell for 22 hours a day, arguing that such solitary confinement threatened her health and amounted to “torture.”

Source: Chelsea Manning released from Virginia jail after 62 days – CNNPolitics

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21 thoughts on “Chelsea Manning released from Virginia jail after 62 days – CNNPolitics”

  2. Doubtless he wasn’t counting on 22 hours a day in solitary “for Manning’s and staff’s safety” of course. Might be a bit more willing to testify this time instead of going back to that.
    Poor thing.
    manning tears of a clown

  3. Don’t really care what they do with Chelsea, but Bradley Manning should be in jail for life. Treason, among other things that any of the rest of us would have promptly been incarcerated for doing. He can call himself Micky Mouse, bleach his hair, and pierce his left big toe – it doesn’t matter.

  4. Don’t care if “It” identifies as a unicorned sparkle pony fart, “It” deserves to be in prison, or better yet, hung by the neck until dead. If for no other reason, to discourage the others, as the paraphrased saying goes. The more that people are allowed to “get away with” the more they will do to harm our Country’s interest. Punishment for convicted enemies of our Country should be swift, certain, and draconian.

  5. So with all this righteous fighting against these judges, it’s getting enough attention that it doesn’t need to make another failed suicide attempt.

  6. Here’s an unpopular series of thoughts, Manning admitted guilt in at least half the charges and was convicted on all but the most serious charges of aiding the enemy. For me the big takeaway isn’t that Manning is a traitor it’s two fold. The first aspect is that we were so short handed fighting this war that a crybaby transgender fruit’s psychological problems were ignored largely because we needed the ass in the seat more than we were worried about the security ramifications of a delusional dipshit working the top secret room. One of the things the trial exposed was a regular lack of adherence to protocol within Manning’s unit with respect to the handling of secure materials and maintaining good password discipline amongst the players. People were using each other’s log-ons, sharing materials, all manner of non-compliant operating procedures were exposed.

    The videos released show the US killing civilians in bombing strikes. We’ve been doing that for quite some time now, including stepping up the drone program under Obama to really kill civilians, like kids at family gatherings just so we can kill a relative who was an HVT on our list.

    The GWOT is a lot like the drug war, a failed operation because we are not at war with anyone in particular simply a concept. That concept allows the US to violate the sovereign borders of foreign nations and conduct military operations against nations we aren’t at war with.

    We never declared war on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger…we just kill people in those countries, largely because we can. We’ve allowed the government to over inflate the threat of terrorism and as a consequence of that whatever moral high ground the United States once held it no longer holds. Thanks to both the GWOT and the Drug War our government spends more time spying on Americans than it does spying on the supposed terrorists. As Franklin predicted we were willing to trade a sense of security away for our personal freedoms, leaving us with neither as we deserve.

    We are no closer now than we were in 2001 to eliminating the threat of radical Islam. If you can step back honestly and assess what was done in the Middle East for the last 17 years you can see what a waste of time, energy, money and lives the entire experience has been.

    Manning is a convenient villain. They allow us to divert our attention away from a simple reality, the GWOT has done more to restrict the rights and freedoms of Americans than it’s ever done to protect our freedoms. The GWOT has been a tool of our government to enlarge domestic spying, to initiate “secret” courts where the public has no fucking idea what’s really going on. It’s allowed the government to hold people in cages without charges for years, it’s encouraged the American people to consider endorsing state sponsored torture in the name of public safety.

    So sure, Snowden and Manning and Assange are really terrible people and the rest of us blindly supporting our government’s attack on our rights and the subsequent loss of freedom are the good guys.

    When you consider why you all support the second amendment so much, perhaps you can consider that same government you don’t trust to protect is the same fucking government that’s been spying on you and trying to take away all your other freedoms as well, not just your weapons but every other protection you were afforded by the blood and treasure of those who died in the very first revolution to found this nation.

    1. If anybody ever accuses you of not generalizing and painting everyone with the same broad brush, don’t take any shit off of them.

      1. We the people (that’s a pretty large brush area) generally are far more worried about what’s on the Kardashians tonight than whether or not some kid getting his legs blown off is being harmed for any positive reason whatsoever.

        There are a few exceptions, many of them on sites like this, but if we’re honest we realize that’s a fraction of a percent of the population.

    2. “We never declared war on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger”

      You forgot Pakistan.

    3. The loss of American lives is the ONLY downside I see.
      I don’t think we should have done anything in Afghanistan except kill who we needed to kill and then we should have left.
      They come back? Kill them again. Leave. That sh*thole will NEVER be worth a f_ck.

  7. Were y’all hiding from me? I almost panicked, good thing y’all taught me well, and that I stalk most of y’all on the book of faces!

  8. I’m guessing that Brad enjoyed being the “queen” of Cellblock “B”…

  9. The guards make their rounds way too often in that jail. If left to his own devices he might finish what he started. Nobody likes a quitter Bradley. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

  10. I can’t read the article with all the “she” and “her” crap. It’s like I am being conditioned to accept it. Not Gonna Happen.
    Freak needs to face a firing squad.

  11. “I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.”

    ~ Aeschylus, Greek soldier & playwright (523-456 BC)

  12. They don’t like the realities of protective segregation, put him/her/it in gen pop. I suspect everything would get sorted out quickly.

  13. Bradley Manning is a gelding, but has a team.

    Bruce Jenner, the Hollywood TG, is dating a TG girl.

    If you’re confused, don’t be. They are. They are also never truly happy.

  15. Unless that m’fer has a womb, ovaries, monthly periods and can make babies, the rat bastard is still a “HE”. fuck that “she” shit.

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