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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."
Traitor, sexually confused, suicidal...
My prediction is he/she/it doesn't last 6 months before it's either dead or back in prison.
Hopefully, Bradley Manning can get the treatment he needs for his mental illness.
This is a happy day amidst troubled times. Thanks Chelsea, for having done the right thing, and thanks Obama.
As a transgender woman who lives in Silicon Valley and earns $55k in IT support, I wish her well.
Manning discovered widespread corruption, deeply unethical behavior and absolutely unacceptable conduct, and she decided to let fundamental human rights and dignity overrule artificial power structures, so she exposed the lies, and of course the liars punished her.
It must have taken immense bravery, and we should admire her, not attack her.
Eat the rich.
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Ah, only a few yars years ago leaking national secrets was cool. How do Snowden, Manning, and Obama remain heroes of the same people, who wish to impeach Trump for allegedly doing it?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
As a whistle blower bringing a program back under civil oversight, Manning did well. However, the methods used were wrong. There was never any need to seek personal fame through the media, and if proper channels had been followed there would have never been a sentence that needed to be commuted.
Doesn't qualify at all.
remain an active duty? so this he she will get VA! This trader should have life and be happy that they did not get death by firing squad!
As long as she is on active duty, she falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). If the charge is violating military rules or regulations, she would be processed under the UCMJ. But, even for normal active duty personnel, many crimes or charges are handled by normal civilian courts if they do not involve other military personnel or occur on military property. The military has the option to process them under the UCMJ, but often just let civilian courts handle the charges.
Just another pissed off government employee.
Leaking documents showing illegal activities & war crimes--patriot.
Leaking hundreds of thousands of other documents--criminal.
7 years too late.
Trader? You my non friend, are an absolute idiot. Feel free to remove yourself from the pool of humanity as quickly as possible.
See kids? Prisons are dangerous! Inmates don't just fuck you in the ass anymore, they learn to be doctors to be able to change your gender so they can fuck you in the vagina too!
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This is a topic that will keep the Beavis and Butthead crowd busy. Why would this concern anyone else?
Additionally, feel free to read the whole article and pass judgement once you know all the details. Again, you have embarrassed not only yourself but the human race.
Maybe they were using speech-to-text software? Even Dragon gets a lot wrong just reading text into speech, and software going the other way must also deal with background noise, etc.
Lastly, she allowed the inappropriate actions taken by your country, if you are even from there and not just a useless piece of shit troll, to be revealed to the world.
If anything, she should get an honour. More than you will ever receive from your armchair battle station. You flame the ones who allow you such freedoms.
I salute the brave and scold the filth. I hope you feel scolded.
SCOLDED!!!!!!!! Yes, feel the burn.
As a British transgender woman whose healthcare has been blocked by the NHS for no reason other than administrative spite (which the NHS is well known for) I wish Chelsea well. I know what living within an invisible prison is and the distress instititional bullying causes. It's horrible but good friends and suppport can be a way through. Be well Chelsea and enjoy your new life.
but seriously... state dept cables are a bunch of international gossip. it wasn't someone exposing crimes, it was a dick (lol) move by a nutcase.
Snowden - leaked sensitive information to demonstrate government abuse. He conducted the leaks in a way that limited damage and avoided the public release of information that could put agents in danger. Information was leaked with good intentions in order to benefit society, and as such Snowden should be hailed as a hero.
Manning - leaked sensitive information because he wanted to take revenge on the army. He was pissed off about losing his day off per week because he was persistently late. He went nuts and smashed up the office and then leaked information. He leaked the information in the most damaging way possible with and did so purely out of malice. All actions were taken with the intention of doing as much harm as possible, and as such Manning should be in prison very a very long time.
Incidentally, I use he because at the time of the events he was still a guy.
As a cisgender hermaphrodite that was raised to be self-loathing by a physically and emotionally abusive alcoholic parents, I used modern medical science to get BOTH sexual organs - like a snail!
And with my resulting narcissistic personality disorder, I plan on marrying a Kardashian or a Jenner and becoming President.
Why accept oneself when there s surgery?
Yea, Seth Rich was just shot dead in DC for giving the DNC emails to WikiLeaks, and then the police were told not to investigate because they might find the truth and that Russia wasn't involved in the email leaks at all.
...treason's not such a big deal, as long as it's committed against Republican administrations.
Sharing a Democratic candidate's emails with wikileaks however?
That will get you two bullets in the back of the head.
-Styopa
Well, he probably grew his hair out by now, but it was a wig.
Maybe they were using speech-to-text software? Even Dragon gets a lot wrong just reading text into speech, and software going the other way must also deal with background noise, etc.
Then maybe they should try reading their fucking post first before pressing "Submit"?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
When they are O.R., which is not that often, so relax, take it easy.
+1
This "she-man" is pathetic.
BTW, "she-man" is FDR's term.
We paid for it.
You Can't Handle the Truth!
How long be for chelsea get's an code red?
Summary is bullshit. Enlistment is not forever. The military can only hold him in service until the end of his enlistment term. Once his enlistment term is over, the military can't do anything to him.
Officers are another story. Being an officer *is* forever, and you can be called back at any time.
mbe u shood taake a chil pil
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
She is stealing the reputation of Bradley Manning (retired, unrelated).
The only reason Chelsea got out of prison is likey for exploiting a corrupt prison administration! She sucks dick better than Bradley, whom has been lockup ever since stealing sensitive Assgasistan warlord intelligence to Wikileaks.
Manning did it to impress his boyfriend:
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Pop quiz: how do your cells know what sex they are?
you just did it to get the job right? gender equality employment quotas?
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.
Remember a few short years ago when Wikileaks were heroes for helping to expose America's corruption? And then they exposed Hillary's corruption and became public enemy number 1 overnight. And yet Julian did what he's done his entire adult life - oppose America with every breath. When it benefits the Left, it's good, when it doesn't, it's evil. Food for thought.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Lopping off your tallywacker, inserting a fake vagina, getting breast implants, "self identifying as a woman, and/or taking hormone shots does not make you a woman. Unless you believe silk can be made from a sow's ear, so for you gullible idiots with weak minds that do so, boy do I have some bargains for you.
How fucking typical American the evil shit your country does to whistle blowers and you people delight in the torture they receive. This is one of many reasons why the civilized world views America as uncivilized.
You people do not even know your military and government are your enemy.
Obama has been the worst president on record on the treatment of whistle blowers and you people love it.
Any punishment for the fucking crime of having a conscience is fair game?
There has been other whistler blowers that were not treated as bad but still are never allowed to work again except at fast food places same for their spouses who were not involved because that justice only in America where there are now laws if you are in power or very wealthy.
There. I said it.
And the world will be a better place.
just a deranged shitfucking faggot
not 28 years early, but 7 years too late.
The Obama administration was wreckless and irresponsible for pursing this in the first place
So the traitor decided that he is not a guy any more and everyone started talking about him as "she"?
That is insane. Releasing traitors is evil. Traitors should be shot. Even if they think they are women.
He is a traitor.
Is rightly ignored? If someone says "Doc, this arm is really bothering me, mentally speaking, and identify as a one-armed person. I need you to lop it off." Doc says "Umm...no, we're not going to do that."
But say ""Doc, this penis is really bothering me, mentally speaking, and identify as a female person. I need you to lop it off."
Doc says "Step right this way, we'll get started on that."
In Manning's case, taxpayers funded it.
Getting aroused already.
Join the military, see some stuff that is corrupt, mention it, then spend the rest of your life in the military prison.
They just don't show that bit when they advertise for recruits, the real military experience should be portrayed.
And isn't it the case that the allied troops raped hundreds of thousands of German women post WWII?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11455664/Allied-soldiers-raped-hundreds-of-thousands-of-German-women-after-WW2.html
Probably deserves a mention in each of their Ads.nice to know what the heritage of the organisation is before joining.
When will he be released?
Go feminism!
I'm disappointed, grrls! You can do better than this! I count only 7 mentions of "Bradley" in the comments and 21 mentions of "confuse" in 302 comments.
Show those misogynerds that Bradley is a man with a mental illness no matter how confused he is. He needs psychiatric treatment, not to have his body butchered in an attempt to rape the female form. Drive it home to this rapist that he's an incomplete being and never will be a womyn-born-womyn no matter how delusional he expects the rest of us to be.
Marcy, to Steve, after making a loan to Al:
If you give a gun to a chimp, and the chimp shoots someone, you don't blame the chimp...
Look at that dwarf ginger manlet. What is he, 4ft tall? built like 12 year-old child
what a tiney faggot
If Shrillary never served a day, then seven years is way too long for Manning. 10th Amendment issue waiting to boil over.
There are many more comments about Manning's genitalia than about his/her actions. What is it with you people?
S/he did more than anyone else to disclose the obscene careless violence used by the US military in Iraq. As in the 1st Gulf War, the western media were largely controlled by the military, keeping them away from anything they shouldn't see. Manning almost single-handedly lifted that curtain and should be lauded for doing so.
Those of you harking back to the days when the US could bomb anyone with impunity would do well to consider - even if you discount the immorality - the long term harm to US interests caused by such actions.
Obama (who like every US President has been responsible for lots of deaths) clearly recognized the importance of Manning's actions in deciding to release her.
The problem is nobody wants to hear about your tubby gaylife. Youre a fat weirdo - thats fine. Keep your fat weirdo faggtshit to yourself.
Whistleblowers would/should have attempted to do something about it in a legally justifiable way. This was outright treason.
i can haz one 2
remain an active duty? so this he she will get VA! This trader should have life and be happy that they did not get death by firing squad!
"Hi Chelsea, I'm your VA surgeon assigned to preform your gender reassignment surgery; don't worry, even though I've never done this before, I looked at the pictures in my old text books and watched a couple youtube videos. Now if something goes wrong, do you wish to be an organ donor?"
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Manning is a "He", not a "She". It doesnt matter if he's had his penis cut off and turned inside out, he's still a dude... now with no penis.
No. Seven years late.
'Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early' Not, in fact, 28 years early, but rather, 7 years late. Rather than imprisoned, she should have been awarded a medal for providing incontrovertible evidence as to what the US military was doing in Iraq.... Henri
Surprised they didn't send him/her to the most dangerous place in the world (besides Detroit). Lot's of places where your life isn't worth a nickle.
Let it out of a men's prison and throw it into a women's prison!