Chelsea Manning

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

... with other serious offenses for choosing to disclose around 300,000 top-secret military and unclassified documents to Wiki Leaks. In August 2013, he was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment with a very little possibility of parole. [Image by U. S Army/AP Images]. Later the same month, his attorney’s released a statement via Today show in which they announced that their client was a female and from thereon, she should be referred to by her name of Chelsea, and all the future court proceedings should use feminine pronouns. The released statement also included Manning’s own views on this transformation. “As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.”. In September 2013, her lawyer ...

100,000+ People Demand Obama Free Chelsea Manning

... at the ACLU. Chase Strangio represents Manning in a lawsuit against the Pentagon for denial of medical care related to her gender dysphoria. Welcome back to Democracy Now! Talk about the call for clemency and where it stands now. CHASE STRANGIO: Chelsea Manning has served six-and-a-half years in custody, already longer than any whistleblower who released information in the public interest to the news media in the history of the United States. She has petitioned the president for clemency. She, like we heard about Leonard Peltier, I do not believe, will survive much longer in custody—certainly not another three decades. And so, what we’re really looking at—. AMY GOODMAN: She has attempted suicide several times. CHASE STRANGIO: She has attempted suicide several times. She has lived through brutal conditions of solitary confinement at Quantico. She was 22 years old when she was arrested, already living under trauma of anti-trans, anti-queer policies in our civil society and in the military, and then now brutal conditions in custody. Her life really does depend on Obama taking action now, and her supporters are calling on him to do ...

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

... sentence seems excessive. The Manning leak included video of a deadly 2007 air strike in Baghdad in which the U. S. helicopter crew could be heard laughing about the casualties and State Department cables with blunt comments from American diplomats. "I don't think any harm was done," Coombs said of the disclosures. "A lot of embarrassment, certainly.". Alexa O'Brien, a freelance journalist, covered the trial and sat in the courtroom every day. She said she believes Manning did not mean to harm the U. S. and that the pre-sentence apology was genuine. "Everything she said in that statement is completely morally and ethically consistent with what she said when she pled to 10 lesser or included offenses," O'Brien said. People hold signs calling for the release of imprisoned wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning while marching in a gay pride parade in San Francisco, California June 28, 2015. Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters. Last month, more than 100,000 people signed an online petition seeking commutation of Manning's sentence, meeting the threshold for a White House response within 60 days. The American Civil Liberties Union and gay-rights ...

Free Chelsea Manning Now

... investigation into this attack – US authorities have focused on charging Chelsea, rather than investigating the content of material she drew attention to. Solitary confinement. After her arrest, Chelsea was held for three years in pre-trial detention. She was kept in solitary confinement for eleven months of her pre-trial detention, in conditions that amount to torture, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Chelsea was confined in a windowless six-metre cell for 23 hours a day, without personal possessions, bed sheets, and at times even her glasses. While she was seen as a suicide risk, Chelsea was only allowed to wear her boxer shorts in her cell, and was sometimes forced to go without even her underwear. She has described how she was verbally harassed just before the suicide watch began and how she believed that it was a punishment imposed upon her as a retribution for a protest at the conditions of her detention that had been held outside the detention centre the previous day. Unfair trial. At her July 2013 trial, Chelsea was not allowed to present evidence that she was ...

Obama Vurderer Benåding Av Chelsea Manning

... 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 de bad om at Manning skulle slippes fri. Edward Snowden, som selv har bedt Obama om benådning , tvitret i dag sin støtte til en løslatelse av Manning. Laster Twitter-innhold. Enkelte hevder at Manning fikk en så streng straff fordi Edward Snowden ikke kunne innhentes. Under rettssaken bad Manning om unnskyldning for at hennes handlinger hadde såret andre og at de skadet USA. – Jeg forstår at jeg må betale prisen for mine valg og handlinger, sa hun. Denne uttalelsen skal først nå ha blitt publisert, av NBC. Demonstranter i en ...

Why President Obama Should Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

... were created by the ACLU so you can have your rights at your fingertips. Defending our rights. The ACLU works tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the Constitution’s promise of liberty for everyone in our country. Why President Obama Should Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence. By Chase Strangio , Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV 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 ...

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

... 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 – never put anyone in danger. She has suffered more than enough. President Obama has just 8 days to do the right thing and commute Chelsea’s sentence to time served. If he chooses to keep her behind bars, he is all but signing Chelsea’s death ...

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

... couldn't interfere with a pending case because she was already convicted in a court-martial, and double jeopardy rules barred a separate criminal case against her in a US court. The Justice Department in court papers called Manning's request, filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act, “a quintessential example of an improper attempt to use FOIA to force the government to open its investigative files to public inspection.” The information that Manning wanted was collected as part of a broader, ongoing investigation into Wiki Leaks, the government said, and should be kept secret. The government didn't provide many details about the contents of the documents at issue, but did say that they included confidential source statements — releasing that information could put a source at risk, the ...

Why Obama Should Pardon Chelsea Manning

... longer than anyone convicted of similar offences. Her release is long overdue. Indeed, for her bravery in exposing the brutal realities of American power , it’s the very least she deserves. A full pardon, apology, tickertape parade, and holiday home in Hawaii would be more fitting. As that’s sadly unlikely, a commutation will do. Given the tarnished history of presidential clemency, it’s a deal that could work both ways. Clemency has, in the last few decades, been used for less benevolent purposes. Little wonder: enshrined in the Constitution in 1787, it gives American presidents all the clout of an arbitrary king. The President alone decides who will be granted a pardon or a reprieve and their actions are irrevocable. They’re not even obliged to explain their reasoning. Obama has done ...

Pardon Manning And Snowden Before Trump Takes Office

... execution. Trump's pick for CIA Director, Rep. Mike Pompeo, also has called for the death penalty against Snowden. And Trump's Attorney General appointee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, is a capital punishment hardliner. Although the Obama administration has said it would not seek the death penalty for Snowden, there are few, if any, barriers stopping the Trump administration from seeking death-penalty-eligible charges against him. The mere threat of execution will cement Snowden's martyrdom and weaken the country's bargaining position as it pursues human rights reform abroad. Time has shown that Snowden's leak was a public service. The former outed surveillance programs that had allowed the US government to scoop up entire swathes of the internet, digital communications, and phone traffic, including metadata on millions of innocent people. Unlike Manning's indiscriminate dump of unredacted information onto the web, Snowden turned over his ...