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Chelsea Manning Released From Jail But Another Stint May Be On The Horizon

Chelsea Manning Released From Jail But Another Stint May Be On The Horizon

Chelsea Manning has been released from jail after being in custody for refusing to testify in front of the grand jury regarding WikiLeaks. However, it sounds as if Manning’s freedom may not last all that long. NPR details that the former military intelligence analyst was released from jail Thursday afternoon after the term for the […]

5y ago

Chelsea Manning To Remain In Jail For Refusing To Testify About WikiLeaks

Chelsea Manning To Remain In Jail For Refusing To Testify About WikiLeaks

A federal appeals court judge has rejected former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s request to be released from jail following her incarceration for contempt of court last month. Manny had previously served seven years in prison for leaking intelligence documents. Manning, who has been jailed since March 8, argued that her rights were being violated […]

5y ago

Clinton Talking Points To Prince Saud al-Faisal Among Abedin’s Documents Found On Anthony Weiner’s Laptop

Clinton Talking Points To Prince Saud al-Faisal Among Abedin’s Documents Found On Anthony Weiner’s Laptop

The U.S. State Department released a number of emails from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Friday. The feds discovered the emails on Abedin’s husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop. At least five of the emails were marked as classified. Judicial Watch fought for the release of the documents, but many were highly redacted due to their […]

6y ago

Chelsea Manning: Former U.S. Intelligence Analyst To Be Released From Prison Next Week

Chelsea Manning: Former U.S. Intelligence Analyst To Be Released From Prison Next Week

Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Intelligence Analyst, convicted of stealing over 700,000 classified Military and State Department documents and Iraq battlefield videos and delivering them to WikiLeaks, will be released from prison next Wednesday on May 17, 2017. The 29-year-old Army private is preparing to walk through the security gates of the U.S. disciplinary barracks […]

7y ago

Edward Snowden Thanks All Who Campaigned For Chelsea Manning’s Release

Edward Snowden Thanks All Who Campaigned For Chelsea Manning’s Release

With the news that Chelsea Manning will be released from prison on May 17, Edward Snowden has thanked everyone who has campaigned for clemency on behalf of Manning and said that those people helped to make her release possible. Edward Snowden also thanked Barack Obama and told Chelsea Manning to “stay strong” for just a […]

7y ago

Public Support Saved Chelsea Manning From Solitary, Says Attorney: It ‘Will Not Silence Her’

Public Support Saved Chelsea Manning From Solitary, Says Attorney: It ‘Will Not Silence Her’

Chelsea Manning, who earlier this year became the first military prisoner to get hormone treatment while incarcerated, has been spared solitary confinement as punishment for breaking a few jail rules. Manning had been threatened with solitary, but will instead face three weeks of limitations on certain privileges, such as access to the gym, prison library, […]

8y ago

Could Chelsea Manning Get Solitary Confinement For Having Caitlyn Jenner Issue of ‘Vanity Fair’?

Could Chelsea Manning Get Solitary Confinement For Having Caitlyn Jenner Issue of ‘Vanity Fair’?

The contraband that Chelsea Manning was caught possessing was not a knife or a sharpened metal file or drugs. Yet she’s facing possible solitary confinement. Chelsea’s alleged infraction was having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste. Manning is also charged with disorderly conduct and […]

8y ago

Statues Of Whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin, Germany

Statues Of Whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning Unveiled in Berlin, Germany

In an art installation dubbed “Anything to Say?,” bronze sculptures of whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Bradley Manning have been unveiled on Friday in central Berlin. The statues of whistleblowers are the work of Italian artist Davide Dormino, and the installation was unveiled by activists and members of the Green Party in Germany as […]

9y ago

Chelsea Manning To Receive Hormone Treatment While Behind Bars

Chelsea Manning To Receive Hormone Treatment While Behind Bars

Chelsea Manning will reportedly receive taxpayer-funded hormone therapy for a sex change while serving a 35-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Formerly Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst who is now transitioning from male to female was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act for funneling about 700,000 national security […]

9y ago

DOD Mulls How To Respect Chelsea Manning’s Right To Leave Bradley Manning Behind

DOD Mulls How To Respect Chelsea Manning’s Right To Leave Bradley Manning Behind

The Department of Defense will now decide on a recent request by the Army jailers of Private Chelsea Manning (the former Bradley Manning at the center of the 2010 WikiLeaks case) asking if Manning might be transferred to a civilian prison that could provide him with the hormone therapy needed to become more like a […]

10y ago

United States Global Press Freedom Ranking Drops Dramatically In 2014 [Report]

United States Global Press Freedom Ranking Drops Dramatically In 2014 [Report]

The United States freedom of the press’ ranking in the world has dropped dramatically compared to the year before, according to a report issued by Reporters Without Borders. According to the document, the sharp drop is due to the increase in the cracking down of whistleblowers. Report Without Borders’ annual Freedom Index ranked the United […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning: Marriage And Family After Prison [Video]

Bradley Manning: Marriage And Family After Prison [Video]

WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning is looking forward to getting married and having a family some day. You know, after his 35-ish years in prison are over. We’re mostly kidding (Manning will likely serve about a decade and no more), but his lawyer said that the former intelligence analyst isn’t letting prison time prevent him/her from […]

10y ago

Leavenworth Prison Inmates Eagerly Await Bradley Manning’s Sex Change; He May Live To Regret It

Leavenworth Prison Inmates Eagerly Await Bradley Manning’s Sex Change; He May Live To Regret It

Leavenworth prison has witnessed many events in its 150 year history. But now its has to come to terms with the 21st century, and situations which were not conceivable until now. Bradley Manning, the soldier sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, has announced that he wants to live out the remainder of his […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning Female, Changing Name To Chelsea Manning [Video]

Bradley Manning Female, Changing Name To Chelsea Manning [Video]

Soldier Bradley Manning is female, and officially came out as transgender as she thanked supporters in a letter. Bradley Manning announced her change of gender as well as a new name, Chelsea Manning, in the letter read on this morning’s Today show. Manning disclosed the change of gender she plans in the statement titled “The […]

10y ago

Leavenworth Prison Welcomes Its Newest Guest, Bradley Manning; His Reservation Is For 35 Years

Leavenworth Prison Welcomes Its Newest Guest, Bradley Manning; His Reservation Is For 35 Years

Leavenworth Prison is about to welcome its newest guest. Bradley Manning was found guilty of leaking classified documents and information to WikiLeaks, and is to serve 35 years for his crimes. The facility at Leavenworth, located west of Kansas City, is notorious as being one of the harshest prisons in America, The external appearance of […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning Sentence A ‘Tactical Victory’ Says Julian Assange

Bradley Manning Sentence A ‘Tactical Victory’ Says Julian Assange

Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today for his part in the WikiLeaks controversy, but that sentence is sort of a win for transparency advocates, according to Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder said that the sentence represented a “significant tactical victory” for Manning, his defense and his supporters. Despite this, Assange does […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning Sentence: WikiLeaks Whistleblower Gets 35 Years

Bradley Manning Sentence: WikiLeaks Whistleblower Gets 35 Years

Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for leaking hundreds of thousands of secret military documents to the transparency advocacy website WikiLeaks. The Associated Press reports that Manning did not seem to react when the sentence was handed down by military judge Col. Denise Lind without explanation during the brief hearing. […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning Apologizes For Leaks, Hurting The U.S.

Bradley Manning Apologizes For Leaks, Hurting The U.S.

Bradley Manning, who was convicted of turning over state secrets to the transparency advocacy website WikiLeaks, said on Wednesday that he was sorry for his actions and for hurting the United States. “I’m sorry I hurt people. I’m sorry that I hurt the United States,” Manning said during the sentencing portion of his court martial. […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning’s Leaks Did Help Al Qaeda, Expert Witness Says

Bradley Manning’s Leaks Did Help Al Qaeda, Expert Witness Says

Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks breach did in fact help al Qaeda operatives, a prosecution witness said Thursday. Perhaps the thing determining whether or not Manning is in big trouble or really big trouble is whether or not any of the 700,000+ documents he turned over to transparency advocate site WikiLeaks actually compromised national security in a […]

10y ago

Bradley Manning’s Maximum Sentence Cut To ‘Only’ 90 Years

Bradley Manning’s Maximum Sentence Cut To ‘Only’ 90 Years

Bradley Manning hasn’t been sentenced yet, but it was announced Tuesday that the maximum amount of time he could spend in prison had been cut to “only” 90 years. Manning is in his second week of sentencing, and though the WikiLeaks ally has already won some important victories in his case, he could still spend […]

10y ago

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