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Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is set to walk out of prison Wednesday -- but she won't be entirely free. Manning's 35-year sentence for leaking an enormous trove of military intelligence records was commuted by President Barack Obama in January. But Manning is still appealing her conviction in a case that could take years, and the government has yet to respond to the appeal. And all the while, Private First Class Manning, 29, will remain an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army. She won't be paid a salary, and it's highly unlikely that she will be called to serve. But being placed on voluntary excess leave rather than discharged, says one of her attorneys, makes her vulnerable to new military punishment or charges if she steps out of line. Such an offense could be anything from getting into a fistfight to revealing previously unreleased classified information. Manning could even get into trouble with the military for speaking and writing. The Army private then known as Bradley Manning was just 22-year-old when she leaked nearly 750,000 military files and cables to WikiLeaks. Manning was court-martialed and sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison, with opportunity for parole after seven years served. n a statement given to the TODAY show the day after sentencing, Manning came out as a transgender woman. Last Tuesday, in Manning's first official statement about her plans after prison, she said, "I can see a future for myself as Chelsea."
As a transgender woman who lives in Silicon Valley and earns $55k in IT support, I wish her well.
Maybe because he did it for the wrong reasons?
Then again, it's nice to see a president I can relate to. A loudmouth, bigot, braggard... at first I thought he's just another rich, spoiled brat, but now I know, he's a rich, spoiled brat, all right, but still kinda one of us.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Obama: Working with the security community to develop a mid-east strategy.
Snowden: Whistleblower exposing highly illegal activities of secret government agencies at great cost to himself. Very methodical in his process of leaking to minimize any collateral damage.
Manning: Whistleblower exposing highly activities of military and other government agencies at great cost to herself. Can be criticized for the indiscriminate nature of the leaks but had much different conditions than Snowden.
Trump: Just bragging to stoke his own ego. Endangers allied intelligence source for absolutely no other benefit unless he is actually in collusion of a rival power (which I personally doubt). Total disregard for his duties of office or of any responsibilities of those reporting to him.
I really wonder what kind of mentality someone has to have in order to not to be able to see the difference.
Thinking getting a chop-a-dic-off-of-me, or an add-a-dic-to-me can change your gender is about as smart as thinking you can change lead into gold. It's a MENTAL disorder. Unless you figure a way to change your DNA from XX=female, to XY=Male just because you may or may not have a penis doesn't mean you can change it to the other. The rare case of XXY would be about the only exception. Until the late 70's, the DSM book considered gender disorder as such, a psychological disorder. But, with the age of political correctness, whatever these snowflakes want, they get.