Chelsea Manning

He Has Her On The 'short List,' But Will Obama Free Chelsea Manning

... — and the nation. A recording of that statement is being broadcast for the first time by NBC News. "I'm sorry," Manning said. "I'm sorry that my actions hurt people. I'm sorry that they hurt the United States.". "I understand that I must pay the price for my decisions and actions," Manning added. Those words of contrition did not sway the military judge, who gave Manning a sentence about 10 times longer than those of recent whistle-blowers. "After this case, I had to tell Chelsea: 'I've represented murderers. I've represented rapists. I've represented child molesters. And none of them received 35 years,'" defense lawyer David Coombs told NBC News. Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, leaves a military court facility in 2013. SAUL LOEB / AFP - Getty Images. Manning — who announced she was a transgender woman named Chelsea the day after the verdict — didn't seem to process ...

100,000+ People Demand Obama Free Chelsea Manning

... a message into a future in which whistleblowers are going to be more important than ever. Chelsea Manning is a hero to many of us. And I hope that we recognize—. AMY GOODMAN: Why is Chelsea Manning a hero to you. CHASE STRANGIO: Chelsea Manning is a hero to me because she is absolutely someone who stands up for what she believes is right. She speaks truth in the face of systems of injustice. And she is the type of person that we’re going to need in our government in the next four years, certainly, and we absolutely should take action to protect the whistleblowers, who very well could save democracy for us. AMY GOODMAN: And you call her a whistleblower because. CHASE STRANGIO: I call Chelsea a whistleblower because she shared information that she believed, and I believed, was in the public interest, that allowed us to better understand the nature of injustice that our government was ...

Pardon Manning And Snowden Before Trump Takes Office

... meaningful change. Snowden forced the NSA to become more transparent, more protective of privacy—and more effective." After leaving office, even Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that Snowden "actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and the changes that we made.". Snowden's leak led to important surveillance reforms. A bipartisan group in Congress successfully reformed the Patriot Act to end the collection of domestic phone call metadata. President Obama implemented the country's first-ever directive recognizing privacy interests of foreigners. And internet companies have begun to push back against spy agency demands for users' data. Follow CNN Opinion. Join us on Twitter and Facebook. Even if Manning and Snowden do not deserve pardons for serving the public interest, the American people deserve to be free from the international embarrassment caused by the two cases. The government has failed to show compassion toward Manning, undermining the United States' call for better treatment of LGBT people around the world. The Obama ...

Why Obama Should Pardon Chelsea Manning

... me and made me feel less than human.” She has, this year, made two attempts on her own life. The prison placed her in solitary confinement as punishment. If Obama is interested in returning the power of clemency to its high-minded beginnings, it’s hard to think of a case more appropriate than Manning’s. As Alexander Hamilton, one of the original framers, wrote, it was to be deployed where justice wears “a countenance too sanguinary and cruel”. It could be her last chance for some time. Manning, in a recent blog post , wrote of her wider fears: “We face something that could be more vicious and terrifying than almost anything we’ve had to fight together as a community.” While Trump hasn’t yet spoken out about her case, he has, in the past, implied that fellow whistle-blower Edward Snowden should  face execution. Despite everything, Manning’s birthday is a cause for celebration. She’s still alive and still fighting. “I am Chelsea Manning, a proud woman who is transgender and who… is respectfully requesting a first chance at life,” she writes in her appeal. She has given the world so much — and suffered appallingly in return. It’s ...

Free Chelsea Manning Now

... to grant Chelsea clemency and free her. Take Action Send an email. Obama: Free Chelsea Manning now. Take Action Send an email. ‘I hope that you will continue supporting my fight for justice. My case impacts important issues that affect many, if not all, Americans.’. Chelsea Manning. Chelsea Manning is one of the world's most famous whistle blowers. She is serving 35 years in high-security military prison in Kansas for leaking classified government documents which exposed human rights abuses by the US army and its allies. She endured eleven months of solitary confinement prior to her military trial, and was ‘disciplined’ with two weeks of solitary this year after attempting to take her life. Chelsea Manning’s lawyers submitted an application for commutation in mid-November. It is critical that President Obama grant Chelsea Manning’s application in recognition of her acting in the public ...

Why President Obama Should Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

... Project. January 11, 2017 | 3:15 PM. This morning, NBC News reported that Chelsea Manning is on President Obama’s “short list” to receive a commutation of her sentence. Chelsea applied for clemency in November, urging the president to commute her sentence to time served and give her a chance “ to live [her] life outside the USDB as the person [she] was born to be. ”. With nine days left in office, action by Obama may be Chelsea’s last chance for survival. Seven years into her 35-year sentence, Chelsea has already served longer than any person in United States history for disclosing information to the news media. The information she disclosed served a clear public interest, helping raise awareness regarding the impact of war on innocent civilians. Nonetheless, she pled guilty to many of the charges brought against her hoping for leniency in her sentencing — leniency that she never received. Instead, she endured torturous conditions of solitary ...

Could Barack Obama Pardon Edward Snowden, Hillary Clinton And Chelsea Manning

... Idaho-born Robert ‘Bowe’ Bergdahl is also a United States Army soldier who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Pakistan and Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release on May 31, 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members who were sentenced to serve at Guantanamo Bay. [Image by US Army/AP Images]. Later in June 2014, the U. S. Army stated that their team has started investigating on the grounds of Bowe’s capture and release by the Haqqani network. New York Times reported in 2016 that Bergdahl is going to ask President Obama to pardon him before leaving the White House in January 2017 to President-elect Donald Trump. Edward Snowden. Edward Joseph Snowden was offered a position at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006, which he joined. As a CIA agent, he was assigned to the global communications division at the agency’s Virginia’s headquarters. In ...

If President Obama Doesn't Commute Her Sentence, Chelsea Manning Won't Survive

... battle with the Justice Department just to gain the right to be herself while in prison. Since her arrest in 2010, the government’s perverse mistreatment of Chelsea has made international headlines seemingly every month. She’s been threatened with severe punishment and solitary confinement for minor “infractions” like having an expired tube of toothpaste in her cell, and has faced constant scrutiny and harassment from prison officials. Chelsea has twice attempted to end her own life as a direct result of the inhumane conditions of her imprisonment and in particular the extreme distress she has experienced due to the denial of proper health care. After her first suicide attempt, she was cruelly punished with solitary confinement, which only deepened her despair. Chelsea has already been incarcerated for longer than any other whistleblower in United States history, despite the fact that intelligence officials agree that her actions – which were clearly intended to be in the public interest – ...

Obama Vurderer Benåding Av Chelsea Manning

... må i så fall skje innen 20 januar, da Obama slutter som president. Ti ganger lengre straff. Straffen Manning fikk skal være ti ganger så lang som dommene andre, mer nylige varslere har fått. – Jeg har representert mordere, voldtektsmenn og barneovergripere. Ingen av dem fikk 35 år, sier forsvareren hennes, David Coombs, til NBC News. Chelsea Manning het i 2010 Bradley Manning, men like etter rettssaken fortalte hun at hun var kvinnelig transgender. Chelsea Manning het i 2010 Bradley Manning, men like etter rettssaken fortalte hun at hun var transgender. Foto: Handout / Reuters. Hun innrømmet at hun lekket 470.000 graderte rapporter fra slagmarkene i Irak og Afghanistan og 250.000 hemmelige diplomatiske dokumenter. Materialet Wikileaks publiserte avslørte hvordan krigene i Afghanistan og Irak var fra innsiden, og hvordan USAs interesser verden over ble fremmet fra innsiden av utenrikstjenesten. Ba om unnskyldning. Sist måned signerte mer enn 100.000 personer et opprop på internett, der ...

Chelsea Manning Can't See The Fbi's Files About Her, Judge Rules

... Department of Justice had argued that disclosing the records Manning wanted would interfere with a pending investigation into Wiki Leaks. The judge found that the government “adequately justified” its request to keep the records secret. Manning, a former US Army private, was convicted in a court-martial in 2013 and is serving a 35-year prison sentence. According to an NBC News report on Wednesday, she is on a short list for consideration to receive a commuted sentence from President Obama. In 2014, Manning filed a public records request asking for documents about any investigation of her activities by the FBI or the US attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia, and any records about alleged civilian co-conspirators. The FBI denied the request, saying that disclosing the documents could interfere with pending law enforcement activities related to the Wiki Leaks investigation. Manning ...