The United States issued an updated charging document Thursday, accusing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of espionage and mishandling classified information he received from then-information officer Chelsea Manning.
The 18-count indictment includes the single count of conspiracy that appeared on Assange&#8217;s arrest warrant issued shortly before he was evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and taken into British custody.
<a href="https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Assange-charged-with-violating-Espionage-Act-13882846.php">LMT Online</a> reports that federal prosecutors believe &#8220;Assange worked with a former Army intelligence analyst to obtain and disseminate classified information.&#8221; The indictment also argues that Assange cannot be considered a &#8220;reporter&#8221; for purposes of the First Amendment&#8217;s guarantee of freedom of the press.
Instead, the U.S. government seems to claim that Assange is a foreign agent engaged in the &#8220;explicit solicitation of classified materials&#8221; that he could publish in pursuit of an agenda, not as mere information for Americans he believed were kept in the dark about their country&#8217;s role in the deaths of Iraqi civilians during the initial years of the Iraq War.
The indictment, as the initial claim of conspiracy, stems from Assange&#8217;s interactions with Manning, who stole thousands of classified documents, audio and video files, and funneled them to Wikileaks in the hopes that Wikileaks would publish them. In the initial arrest warrant, the U.S. government described Assange as &#8220;encouraging&#8221; Manning, helping him to hack further into a classified database in order to get better material.
Manning was eventually arrested and convicted on espionage charges.
Assange believes himself to be a reporter and publisher, and considers Wikileaks a protected media outlet. To be convicted of espionage, a court of law would need to find that Assange is not, in fact, simply a publisher &#8212; and that&#8217;s what the U.S. government is arguing in order to avoid any long-term consquences for other journalists who obtain and publish classified information.
Prosectuors, LMT reports, say Assange &#8220;repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal it&#8221; and wanted the information he received to have potential &#8220;political, diplomatic, ethical or historical impact on release.&#8221;
Assange&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s contend that Wikileaks is a news media outlet and that, if he is convicted of espionage for publishing material that turned out to be classified, Assange&#8217;s case could have repercussions for any member of the media who published information the U.S. government didn&#8217;t want readers or news consumers to see.
&#8220;The factual allegations against Mr. Assange boil down to encouraging a source to provide him information and taking efforts to protect the identity of that source,&#8221; Assange&#8217;s attorney Barry Pollack said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
The 18 counts carry with them a maximum jail sentence of 170 years, but there&#8217;s no guarantee that Assange will face trial in the United States. A court in the U.K. is currently considering at least two requests for Assange&#8217;s extradition &#8212; from the United States and Sweden &#8212; and is not expected to rule on where Assange is headed next until early June. Sweden filed its charges late last week, resurfacing an arrest warrant issued for Assange in the early 2000s stemming from an alleged sexual assault.
Assange remains in jail in the U.K. awaiting the court&#8217;s decision.

Julian Assange Charged With Espionage, Mishandling Classified Information

Bradley Manning

Chelsea Manning

Julian Assange

WikiLeaks

A federal judge ordered a 2017 criminal complaint lodged by federal investigators against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange unsealed on Monday, giving Americans their first glimpse at the evidence the United States will likely bring to an early June hearing in the U.K. demanding Assange&#8217;s extradition.
<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/438983-unsealed-docs-reveal-new-details-in-case-against-assange">The Hill reports</a> that the &#8220;original affidavit and criminal complaint were made public in a Virginia federal court for the first time since they were filed in 2017, and they include chat logs between Assange and former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.&#8221;
It is on these chats that investigators are basing their indictment, claiming that Assange&#8217;s communications with Manning amounted to a conspiracy between the two to hack classified documents belonging to the United States military. Manning was eventually convicted of espionage because of his actions, locating, cracking and downloading thousands of intelligence cables, audio and video files, and passing them to Wikileaks for publishing.
The United States is alleging that once Assange had received the first batch of files from Manning, that he worked directly with Manning to obtain more classified information, instructing and counseling Manning on how to crack passwords and download secret files.
The documents certainly claim to show collaboration. The government&#8217;s complaint and an accompanying affidavit are full of snippets from chat logs obtained from Manning&#8217;s computer, showing Manning communicating with an individual who appears, from clues dropped in the conversations, to be Julian Assange.
The &#8220;individual,&#8221; the government claims &#8220;appeared to have extensive knowledge of WikiLeaks&#8217; day-to-day operations, including knowledge of submissions of information to the organization, as well as of financial matters,&#8221; making it highly likely Manning was communicating directly with Julian Assange. At some point in a follow up interview, Manning also seems to have admitted that &#8220;the person i was communicating was in fact assange.&#8221;
But even as the documents might establish Assange and Manning as collaborators in an effort to hack secret military files about airstrikes in Iraq, which Manning claims killed thousands of civilians, in order to prove that the pair were engaged in a &#8220;conspiracy,&#8221; the government must prove that there was a known outcome of their discussions.
In the chat logs, contained in the affidavit, Assange certainly appears to be passing on his code-cracking expertise to Manning, and passing on advice on how to break into secure networks, like the one Manning was scanning for evidence that the U.S. military was actively harming the Iraqi people. But the affadavit doesn&#8217;t show that Manning and Assange had a specific target in mind &#8212; or, at least, the chat logs don&#8217;t list one, and it&#8217;s unknown whether Manning eventually used Assange&#8217;s advice to successfully crack a secure network.
The complaint says that &#8220;it remains unknown whether Manning and Assange were successful in cracking the password,&#8221; but Manning was, indeed, eventually convicted on several counts under the Espionage Act for obtaining and disseminating classified material.
Whether this is enough to extradite Assange will be up to a court in the United Kingdom, which will entertain evidence that Assange should be shipped back to the United States to stand trial sometime in early June. It&#8217;s likely the court will also consider a competing request for extradition from Sweden, where Assange is wanted on sexual assault charges.

Federal Judge Unseals Criminal Complaint Against Julian Assange, But Is It Enough For Conspiracy?

Chelsea Manning may end up back in jail after the transgender activist refused to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena.
<a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/fed-prosecutors-who-screwed-up-big-time-over-possible-assange-case-get-judges-ok-on-chelsea-manning-subpoena/">Law &amp; Crime reports</a> that it&#8217;s unclear what issue the federal grand jury has been convened over, but it appears that prosecutors wanted Manning to testify regarding Julian Assange and Wikileaks. A U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia appeared to confirm that the government is pursuing an as-yet-unknown set of potential criminal charges against the Wikileaks founder, who is still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
&#8220;The government slapped Manning with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in the EDVA, Manning moved to quash the subpoena. A federal judge denied that attempted quashing on Tuesday,&#8221; Law &amp; Crime reported earlier this week.
Manning, of course, has a clear connection to Assange, having offered Wikileaks a trove of classified documents, transcripts, and videos stolen from military intelligence agencies in the Middle East during the Iraq War. Manning downloaded the classified material, ostensibly in protest of the military&#8217;s ban on LGBT individuals serving openly, and passed the material to Assange, who posted it on Wikileaks.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for espionage, but Manning&#8217;s sentence was commuted by then-President Barack Obama.
Manning appears to have no intention of appearing or testifying in front of the federal grand jury, whether he is able to successfully quash the subpoena or not. On Thursday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/05/politics/chelsea-manning-grand-jury/index.html">Manning told CNN</a> that prosecutors did not specify why the were seeking testimony.
&#8220;They told us that they&#8217;re just interested in me appearing so what questions they ask me I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Manning said. &#8220;We certainly don&#8217;t know &#8212; we can speculate like anyone else.&#8221;
CNN reports that the Justice Department has been investigating Assange since at least 2010, and that there was a recent development in the case, leading to a flurry of filings and activities in the Eastern District of Virginia over the last two weeks.
Manning&#8217;s closed hearing, the former Army intelligence worker told reporters, is scheduled for tomorrow morning, but Manning has no plans to show up.
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New statement from Chelsea Manning &#8212; she has refused to testify before grand jury. Another closed hearing is set for tomorrow am. &#8220;The court may find me in contempt, and order me to jail,&#8221; she says in statement.
&#8212; Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachelweinerwp/status/1103714929864069120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
The court has scheduled a contempt hearing for Friday, it seems, according to a statement from Manning released Thursday afternoon, though it appears Manning testified in some capacity on Thursday as well.
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Yesterday, I appeared before a secret grand jury after being given immunity for my testimony. All of the substantive questions pertained to my disclosures of information to the public in 2010&#8212;answers I provided in extensive testimony, during my court-martial in 2013. I responded to each question with the following statement: &#8220;I object to the question and refuse to answer on the grounds that the question is in violation of my First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, and other statutory rights.&#8221;
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Contempt of court charges do not typically result in long sentences.

Chelsea Manning May End Up Back In Jail After Refusing To Honor Subpoena

Barack Obama

Twitter took months to ban neo-Nazi accounts, repeatedly issuing harassing and often violent threats at other members of the social media community, but it took mere minutes, apparently, to ban conservative powerhouse, @GayPatriot for calling Chelsea Manning by his real name.
The @GayPatriot account was indefinitely suspended for &#8220;harassment&#8221; after GayPatriot (who is both gay and a patriot&#8203;) tweeted &#8220;You&#8217;re a traitor, Bradley,&#8221; at Chelsea Manning&#8217;s Twitter account.
Bruce, who runs GayPatriot, Tweeted out the official reprimand from his alternate account.
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Welp. <a href="https://t.co/fblHUSyBH8">pic.twitter.com/fblHUSyBH8</a>
&#8212; Bruce On The Loose (@BruceOnLoose) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceOnLoose/status/1001164141225267200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
The exact offense isn&#8217;t listed, but there&#8217;s nothing remotely threatening or harassing about the response other than that it refers to Chelsea Manning by his original name, Bradley &#8212; the name Chelsea used full time before undergoing gender reassignment surgery while serving time in prison for leaking thousands of classified documents, including video, to Wikileaks.
As for whether calling Chelsea Manning a &#8220;traitor&#8221; is offensive and harassing, well, GayPatriot certainly isn&#8217;t the first person on social media to suggest that someone who was convicted on several counts of the Espionage Act for providing the enemy with information that ultimately led to the deaths of American soldiers might have committed a heinous crime.
Twitter users were quick to respond to the ban in the only appropriate way: by asking Twitter, &#8220;WTF?&#8221;
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Welp. <a href="https://t.co/fblHUSyBH8">pic.twitter.com/fblHUSyBH8</a>
&#8212; Bruce On The Loose (@BruceOnLoose) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceOnLoose/status/1001164141225267200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Ridiculous <a href="https://t.co/nhZciRvr9v">https://t.co/nhZciRvr9v</a>
&#8212; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1001862983046324226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GayPatriot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GayPatriot</a> suspended from twitter for calling Chelsea Manning a traitor. In January. An objectively true statement. No swearing or anything.
You will hold the opinions <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> wants you to hold, or else.
&#8212; Kayla Elizabeth (@VixenRogue) <a href="https://twitter.com/VixenRogue/status/1001165812445556736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
Others, like the NRA&#8217;s Dana Loesch, pointed out that Twitter has done nothing to stem the endless flow of violent threats from leftists, but took less than 24 hours to shut down an incorrect name.
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90% of my mentions are eleventy-thousand times worse than this and Twitter has no problem with any of those. <a href="https://t.co/60reDHYa6N">https://t.co/60reDHYa6N</a>
&#8212; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1001654291642318850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
Twitter user and commentator Jim Treacher was quick to point out that Twitter has an itchy finger when it comes to banning people the Left&#8217;s beloved hero Chelsea Manning can&#8217;t handle.
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I was suspended for tweeting some emojis at that traitor. EMOJIS.
&#8212; Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1001776783522492416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
Twitter has pledged to make their social network a &#8220;friendlier&#8221; place. But it&#8217;s clear they only intend to make it friendly for very specific people.

Twitter Suspends User ‘@GayPatriot’ For ‘Harassment’ After He Calls Chelsea Manning ‘Bradley’

Social Justice

Twitter

Convicted leaker-turned-transgender activist Chelsea Manning is reportedly &#8220;safe&#8221; after posting a photo on Twitter late Sunday evening that showed a person&#8217;s feet on a ledge, overlooking the street below.
The picture, posted to Manning&#8217;s account with the caption, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; appeared to suggest that Manning was contemplating suicide. The Tweet was eventually deleted.
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Chelsea Manning tweeted this photo what appeared to be an attempted suicide. The image was removed and now the Chelsea Manning twitter account says &#8220;Chelsea is safe. She is on the phone with friends, thanks everyone for your co CERN and please give her some space&#8221;. <a href="https://t.co/XqIMF5Y1dq">pic.twitter.com/XqIMF5Y1dq</a>
&#8212; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1000956172231430145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2018</a></blockquote>
A second Tweet was posted on Manning&#8217;s account this morning claiming that Manning is now &#8220;safe,&#8221; is &#8220;on the phone with friends,&#8221; and requesting &#8220;space&#8221; as Manning clearly appears to be struggling with some sort of mental illness.
Earlier in the day Sunday, Manning posted a strange Tweet which appeared to suggest that &#8220;change&#8221; might require a revolution &#8212; &#8220;something radically different&#8221; &#8212; rather than simple voting or protests. Manning seemed to be having difficulty generating interest in what most believed was a protest Congressional campaign launched to unseat Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been knocking on doors and making phone calls all over Maryland lately &#8211; most people aren&#8217;t interested in voting, or elections, or civil discourse anymore &#8211; they&#8217;ve heard it all before &#8211; they don&#8217;t think it will make a difference &#8211; and they are right,&#8221; Manning Tweeted.
Manning has become an outspoken activist for &#8220;outsider&#8221; politics &#8212; occasionally mixing in with both the progressive left and the alt-right &#8212; since President Barack Obama commuted Manning&#8217;s sentence upon leaving office in 2017.

Chelsea Manning ‘Safe’ After Appearing To Threaten Suicide On Twitter

On Monday, Presidents Day, Chelsea Manning, the darling of the Left, decided to take another shot at President Trump and presidents in general with an ill-advised tweet that elicited an avalanche of scorn on the internet. Manning, the traitor and former intelligence analyst who is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/14/chelsea-manning-confirms-senate-bid-says-yup-were-running.html">running for the Senate</a> in Maryland and whose <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/21/manning-gets-35-years-in-wikileaks-case.html">35-year sentence</a> for giving classified information to WikiLeaks was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-obama-commutes-chelsea-manning-s-sentence-n708046">infamously commuted</a> by former president Barack Obama just before he left office in January 2017, tweeted:
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imagine a world without a presidency <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PresidentsDay2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PresidentsDay2018</a> <a href="https://t.co/xn4k74SZPc">https://t.co/xn4k74SZPc</a> <a href="https://t.co/4YFneTGC5x">pic.twitter.com/4YFneTGC5x</a>
&#8212; Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/965626609674964998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Manning was pummeled by a variety of people on Twitter for one obvious reason:
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Without a president wouldn&#8217;t you still be in prison?
&#8212; Russian bot from Virginia (@benjyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/benjyman/status/965628974155038720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Imagine a world without a presidency a day before you where pardoned!
&#8212; OneStar (@BwBarrnone) <a href="https://twitter.com/BwBarrnone/status/965632399869542400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Without a POTUS, you&#8217;d still be sitting in a military prison, so there&#8217;s that.
&#8212; Ken Meyer (@Kcmeyer6971) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kcmeyer6971/status/965641411621203969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Imagine a world where someone running for senate is criticizing basic structures of our government (and not the people in government&#8230;the actual structure). It&#8217;s one thing to want your party in the Presidency. It&#8217;s another to want the office of the presidency gone altogether.
&#8212; Jodie Augustine (@jojojoaugustine) <a href="https://twitter.com/jojojoaugustine/status/965627960312164358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Imagine someone who has your platform and didn&#8217;t hang out with nazis.
&#8212; regular type fellow (@Bigwitties) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bigwitties/status/965631933316239360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A world where no one would have pardoned you, and you would still be locked up? 
Okay.
&#8212; TocksNedlog (@gypsyluc) <a href="https://twitter.com/gypsyluc/status/965628412596375553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Chelsea Manning Tweets That We Shouldn’t Have A President. The Internet Drops An Anvil On Him.

Donald Trump

File this under &#8220;You Just Can&#8217;t Make This Stuff Up.&#8221; Traitor Bradley Manning-turned-social justice icon Chelsea Manning &#8212; who was released by President Obama right before leaving office &#8212; has a message for all the &#8220;FASCISTS&#8221; out there: they deserve the jackboot &#8230;
In a series of tweets in &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with Antifa, Manning calls for fellow members of the &#8220;Real Resistance&#8221; to &#8220;defend against fascism by any means necessary&#8221; and accuses the &#8220;police/intel/military state&#8221; of &#8220;defending fascism&#8221; and being the &#8220;real &#8216;agitator.'&#8221;
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hey FASCISTS &#65039; in case you forgot &#8205; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeGotThis?src=hash">#WeGotThis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Charlottesville?src=hash">#Charlottesville</a> <a href="https://t.co/vrB1eEdWie">https://t.co/vrB1eEdWie</a> <a href="https://t.co/PxDxJHBIhp">pic.twitter.com/PxDxJHBIhp</a>
&#8212; Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/896235475853357060">August 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;[i]n solidarity! defend against fascism by any means necessary,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/897539376858660865">wrote</a> Manning in another tweet. &#8220;[W]e are #RealResistance.&#8221;
Called out online for the call for violence, Manning <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/898737051402555392">responded</a>, &#8220;&#8216;by any means necessary&#8217; is not an organization &#8230; its a concept &#8230; we defend ourselves by all means possible.&#8221;
&#8220;[T]he police/intel/military state defending fascism is the real &#8216;agitator&#8217; here&#8230; dismantle the police state!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/899037468086894592">added</a> Manning in another tweet.
So, yeah, the solution to fascism, according the recently released traitor, is fascism. In other words, Manning wholeheartedly agrees with the methods of Antifa, which the left-leaning media are working together to sanitize and raise up as the Left&#8217;s heroic response to the white nationalist alt-righters and Klansmen. In fact, just over the weekend CNN published a report on the Antifa&#8217;s promotion of &#8220;peace through violence&#8221; that has yet again exposed its dangerous <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/19/cnns-take-antifa-peace-violence/">leftwing bias</a> (CNN eventually <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19954/cnn-alters-headline-after-claiming-antifa-seeks-emily-zanotti">changed the title</a> of the article, raising more eyebrows).
As National Review&#8216;s <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447758/chelsea-mannings-release-nothing-celebrate">David French</a> explained upon Manning&#8217;s release, the former United States Army Soldier put &#8220;massive amounts of sensitive information into the public domain, including information that could teach the enemy exactly how we plan, equip, and execute missions both routine and extraordinary&#8221;:
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&#8230; Bradley Manning was no ordinary &#8220;leaker.&#8221; When he dumped hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets into the public domain, he violated every single tenet of the warrior ethos. He abandoned the mission. He &#8220;accepted&#8221; defeat and, through his data dumps, worked to facilitate it. He quit on his comrades, acting with utter, callous disregard for their lives. His message to his unit and to his nation was clear: He would disobey lawful orders and risk killing his comrades to, in his words, stimulate &#8220;worldwide discussions, debates, and reforms.&#8221;
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For that potentially deadly betrayal, Manning was given a 35-year sentence. In 2014, Manning legally changed his name to Chelsea Manning, subsequently demanding that the government fund his transition. In fact, one of the points of concern from the media about the convicted traitor&#8217;s release was that Manning would &#8220;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/18/chelsea-manning-lose-transgender-benefits-dishonorable-discharge/96742180/">lose transgender benefits with dishonorable discharge</a>.&#8221;
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Despite his extremely serious crimes, for which a 35-year sentence was remarkably merciful, President Obama pardoned Manning just before leaving office in January. Here&#8217;s French again on the significance of Obama&#8217;s actions:
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When Barack Obama commuted Manning&#8217;s sentence yesterday, he signaled once again that, even after eight long years as commander-in-chief, he simply does not understand the essence of military leadership or the core of military culture. By minimizing Manning&#8217;s crimes, he violated his own obligation to men and women in uniform. It was his job to enforce the lawful military norms that have been forged through centuries of bitter battlefield experience. Instead, he violated those norms, ensuring that Manning will serve no more time than men convicted of far more mundane crimes.
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Now Manning is openly calling for vigilante violence to put down whomever the Left deems to be &#8220;fascists.&#8221; Good call, Obama.

IRONY: Chelsea Manning Threatens ‘Fascists’ With His Jackboot. Seriously.

Alt-Right

Antifa

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Military

Race

Racism

It&#8217;s official: Vogue Magazine is featuring a profile of American traitor Chelsea Manning in their widely-circulated September issue. On Thursday, Manning posted a photo of himself in a red one-piece swimsuit with 1,000 emojis and the caption, &#8220;guess this is what freedom looks like.&#8221;
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guess this is what freedom looks like <a href="https://twitter.com/voguemagazine">@voguemagazine</a> <a href="https://t.co/g7YYNkcd9l">https://t.co/g7YYNkcd9l</a> <a href="https://t.co/nyAUje52bE">https://t.co/nyAUje52bE</a> <a href="https://t.co/n4ixFkIdVn">pic.twitter.com/n4ixFkIdVn</a>
&#8212; Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/895619097051840513">August 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Manning, as you might recall, was serving a 35-year sentence before President Barack Obama commuted the traitor&#8217;s sentence on his way out of the White House.
Manning dumped some 700,000 military documents to Wikileaks while he was serving in the United States Military as an intelligence analyst. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16622/left-ecstatic-traitor-chelsea-manning-reveals-ben-shapiro">reported</a>, Manning&#8217;s dump likely got Americans killed:
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It remains unclear how many, if any Americans were killed due to the leaks. But Arizona Senator John McCain said in January of 2017 that he&#8217;s confident the Taliban used the information and retaliated against those named. McCain told Fox News host Bill O&#8217;Reilly he felt &#8220;sorrow for the families of those individuals who identified in these leaks in Afghanistan that the Taliban went after and murdered. And rage because this president is basically endorsing a proposal that allows someone to go free who is responsible for the needless deaths of those people who are allies. &#8230; Let me be specific. The information I received when I was there was that the Taliban went after these people. I assume, killed them.&#8221;
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But Manning came out as transgender on the same day he was sentenced, so he&#8217;s become a hero to the Left. He&#8217;s been celebrated for posting &#8220;bold&#8221; selfies on social media, protesting President Donald Trump&#8217;s Military transgender ban, and, now, he&#8217;s being celebrated on the pages of Vogue.
As <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/style/chelsea-manning-poses-swimsuit-vogue-freedom-looks-like-174718086.html">reported</a> by Yahoo, Manning was photographed by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for the spread, in addition to his lengthy profile.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m living in fear or anything,&#8221; Manning told Vogue. &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad to be out and about and walking around.&#8221;
&#8220;Manning said she&#8217;s not quite sure how she&#8217;ll harness her power yet, and the Vogue story notes she had been interested in running for political office before transitioning,&#8221; notes Yahoo.
&#8220;I&#8217;m certainly not going to say no, and I&#8217;m certainly not going to say yes,&#8221; said Manning when asked about running for office in the future. &#8220;My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go.&#8221;
The traitor said he&#8217;s currently learning Rust, a programming language, and working on his memoir.
And he also wants to start dating. &#8220;I&#8217;m not planning to be single!&#8221; he said.
Astoundingly, Manning said he really connects with the values of &#8220;responsibility&#8221; and &#8220;compassion.&#8221;
&#8220;I have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally.&#8221;
Right.
As previously <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16622/left-ecstatic-traitor-chelsea-manning-reveals-ben-shapiro">noted</a> by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, the slobbering over Manning is &#8220;more evidence that intersectionality has destroyed the Left.&#8221; He explained:
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Manning is a traitor, and his collusion with Wikileaks put Americans in harm&#8217;s way. But Manning is also a victim &#8212; not because of some miscarriage of justice, but because Manning is a member of the LGBT community and stands at the top of the hierarchy of victimhood established by the Left. Manning&#8217;s very status as a &#8220;transgender woman&#8221; means that Manning must be treated with kid gloves, and his crimes reprieved.
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VILE: Vogue Magazine To Feature Transgender Traitor Chelsea Manning

Crime

Feminism

Transgender

Ever since he had his sentence <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html?_r=0">commuted by President Obama</a>, spineless traitor Bradley &#8220;Chelsea&#8221; Manning has dedicated himself to becoming a full-time communist activist. He has expressed moral outrage at Trump&#8217;s decision to bar transgendered individuals from serving in the United States Armed Forces and has openly advocated for income and wealth distribution at odds with the United States Constitution.
Now it seems like Manning is bent on breaking down the very criminal justice system that placed Manning <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/us/bradley-manning-verdict.html">rightfully in the slammer</a> on six counts of espionage. He <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/894965903187693568">tweeted</a> the following regarding prisons:
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Yes, Manning wants to remove prisons entirely. There is no argument about differences between those incarcerated for drug possession as opposed to rape and murder. There is no argument regarding private prisons versus public prisons. According to Manning, the world should not contain facilities to keep the scum of the earth away from the rest of the law-abiding population because, hey, leftism. This is no different from the rhetoric of <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/03/abolish-prisons-says-angela-davis/">former Black Panther terrorist Angela Davis</a>, who evaded conviction for supplying firearms used in the 1970 Marin County hostage-taking and massacre.
However, Manning&#8217;s statement exposes something deeply disturbing about how the Left seeks to address criminal justice reform. There are legitimate issues that need to be addressed with regard to the war on drugs, mens rea reform, and federal regulations that criminalize actions absent of intent. However, the Left takes the conversation outside the realm of reality; it demonstrates how two-faced they are in issues of criminal law. In one breath, the Left can argue for harsher sentences (and rightfully so) for rapists while arguing to abolish the prison system just as Manning did on Twitter. Rather than furthering the conversation in a manner that addresses viable solutions, the Left continues to drag the insane and the absurd.
The worst part of this entire situation is that this talk of abolishing prisons is coming from a scumbag traitor who was convicted of espionage. The last person that anyone should listen to about changing the criminal justice system is one who honestly hates the United States enough to provide top secret information that compromised our national security and possibly resulted in the unnecessary deaths of Americans and our allies.
Great job, leftists! Continue to run the theatre of the absurd with Manning as your court jester.
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MORON ALERT: Chelsea Manning Wants Us To ‘Imagine A World Without Prisons’

Prison

Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, who was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html?utm_term=.a7e583fd68af">convicted</a> of violations of the Espionage Act after copying and disseminating classified military field reports, State Department cables, and assessments of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, gave the first interview since being released from prison, <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chelsea-manning-breaks-down-thanks-obama-in-emotional-interview-on-gma/">tearfully thanking</a> former President Obama for commuting Manning&#8217;s 35-year sentence.
On Good Morning America, Juju Chang asked what Manning would say to Obama if given the chance. Manning wept, &#8220;Thank you. I was given a chance, that&#8217;s all I wanted. That&#8217;s all I asked for, was a chance, that&#8217;s it. And this is my chance.&#8221;
Manning downloaded over 700,000 classified documents from military servers and sent them to Wikileaks, winding up serving six years of the 35-year sentence. Manning had filed a petition for release in November 2016 in which Manning blamed the military for the 35-year sentence, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-obama-commutes-chelsea-manning-s-sentence-n708046">stating</a>, &#8220;I should have waited. I needed time to absorb the conviction, and to reflect on my actions. I also needed time to grow and mature as a person. I take full and complete responsibility for my decision to disclose these materials to the public. I have never made any excuses for what I did. I pleaded guilty without the protection of a plea agreement because I believed the military justice system would understand my motivation for the disclosure and sentence me fairly. I was wrong.&#8221;
On Good Morning America, Manning told Chang, &#8220;I&#8217;ve accepted responsibility. No one told me to do this, no one directed me to do this, this is me. It&#8217;s on me.&#8221;
Posing as a military expert, the former Army private asserted that the enemies the U.S. was fighting had their good points, too, saying:
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You&#8217;re getting all this information, and it&#8217;s just death, destruction, mayhem, and eventually you just stop &#8212; I stopped seeing &#8212; just statistics and information, and I started seeing people. Counterinsurgency warfare is not a simple thing. It&#8217;s not as simple as good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.
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Asked whether the action of releasing classified information endangered national security, Manning boasted, &#8220;I have a responsibility to the public.&#8221;
Video below, with the section regarding Obama at roughly 3:00:
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WATCH: Traitor Chelsea Manning Thanks Obama On ‘Good Morning America’

And you thought Chelsea Manning was the strong, silent type.
Not so much.
In June, Manning will speak in a TV interview <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/335090-chelsea-manning-to-do-first-tv-interview-since-prison-release">for the first time</a> since being released from prison on ABC News. ABC&#8217;s Juju Chang will be the interviewer; the interview will air on Nightline, with segments appearing on Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir.
As an added bonus, Chang will interview members of Manning&#8217;s team who helped with the former soldier&#8217;s release.
Manning released a statement before the release, saying, &#8220;The past will always affect me and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point &#8212; not my final destination.&#8221;
One wonders if Chang will ask about the &#8220;final destination&#8221; for the members of the intelligence community who may have been placed at risk from Manning&#8217;s leaking of classified information to Wikileaks.
Believe it or not, even after the traitorous betrayal of classified information, Manning will remain an active-duty soldier even while going through the appeal of Manning&#8217;s court-martial conviction.

Chelsea Manning Rewarded With First Television Interview After Release

ABC News

On Wednesday, traitor to the United States Chelsea Manning was released from prison after President Obama decided to commute his sentence for leaking classified information to Wikileaks that likely got Americans killed. Manning served just seven years of his 35-year term.
Bradley Manning, you&#8217;ll recall, downloaded some 700,000 military documents while working as an intelligence analyst; he&#8217;d burn those documents onto a CD labeled &#8220;Lady Gaga,&#8221; then erase the music. Manning explained, &#8220;[I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga&#8217;s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history.&#8221; As Amanda Prestigiacomo reported yesterday:
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It remains unclear how many, if any Americans were killed due to the leaks. But Arizona Senator John McCain said in January of 2017 that he&#8217;s confident the Taliban used the information and retaliated against those named. McCain told Fox News host Bill O&#8217;Reilly he felt &#8220;sorrow for the families of those individuals who identified in these leaks in Afghanistan that the Taliban went after and murdered. And rage because this president is basically endorsing a proposal that allows someone to go free who is responsible for the needless deaths of those people who are allies &#8230; Let me be specific. The information I received when I was there was that the Taliban went after these people. I assume, killed them.&#8221;
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In 2013, Manning decided he was actually a woman, and went on a hunger strike in order to try to force the military to pay for gender-reassignment. In 2015, taxpayers began footing the bill for Manning&#8217;s delusions. Meanwhile, Manning became a leftist hero for coming out as his true self: Chelsea.
Now the Left is cheering for Manning as he releases a new photo of himself &#8220;as a woman&#8221;:
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First portrait of <a href="https://twitter.com/xychelsea">@xychelsea</a> since her release! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chelseaisfree?src=hash">#chelseaisfree</a> <a href="https://t.co/9EhkwJTrmM">pic.twitter.com/9EhkwJTrmM</a>
&#8212; Ignacio Torres (@igstorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/igstorres/status/865250209638600706">May 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
Vogue is now reportedly set to do a photo shoot with Manning.
This is just more evidence that intersectionality has destroyed the Left. Manning is a traitor, and his collusion with Wikileaks put Americans in harm&#8217;s way. But Manning is also a victim &#8212; not because of some miscarriage of justice, but because Manning is a member of the LGBT community and stands at the top of the hierarchy of victimhood established by the Left. Manning&#8217;s very status as a &#8220;transgender woman&#8221; means that Manning must be treated with kid gloves, and his crimes reprieved.
This is just one element in the Left&#8217;s worship for identity. We&#8217;ve also been told by the Left that <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16265/racism-only-racism-if-it-comes-group-left-hates-ben-shapiro">black people cannot be racist</a>, since they do not have the power to impose racism on others; we&#8217;ve been informed that riots are not riots but uprisings if their leaders say the riots are directed toward the &#8220;system.&#8221; We&#8217;ve been informed that men can say nothing about abortion, since women are victims of a patriarchal society.
But Manning takes the cake. We will now excuse virtually any crime so long as the perpetrator fulfills the identity standards of the Left. This means equality under the law is dead &#8212; and it means that we&#8217;ll all be forced to cheer Manning as a hero or be derided as intolerant bigots, even though he&#8217;s a villain suffering from severe mental illness.

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