Tag: Chelsea Manning

NOVANEWS   BY: Amy Goodman, U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Manning had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia’s Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 for the leak. President Obama commuted her sentence before he left office. We speak with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the significance of Chelsea Manning’s actions. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent ba...

NOVANEWS By GPD  Chelsea Manning After years of being detained for exposing war crimes committed by US forces that got completely swept under the rug, President Barack Obama will use his final days in office to cut Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Manning had been sentenced to 35 years for leaking confidential material related to US military operations in the Middle East. According to the reduction, Manning will released from US detention on May 17. Manning had been charged with “wrongful and wanton publication to the internet intelligence belonging to the United States.” On August, 21 2013 a court martial slapped Manning with the historically long sentence, the longest prison sentence ever ascribed to someone for leaking documents or footage. The US Army court martial had also cha...