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In one of his last moves in office, President Obama has commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army private who leaked a massive trove of military secrets to WikiLeaks.
The former intelligence analyst's prison sentence has been shortened to expire on May 17, 2017, according to a statement from the White House.
Her lawyers at the ACLU expressed relief after the decision, saying that Manning has already served more time behind bars than any other whistleblower in U.S. history, and under difficult conditions.
Also at the BBC and the New York Times.
Previously: Chelsea Manning Reportedly on Obama's Short List for Commutation; Assange Offers Himself in Trade
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:53PM
That could easily have been avoided.
Within a few months following 9/11, every door to every airliner's cockpit was replaced with a secure one.
The "penny-pinching" airline industry had spend millions of dollars fighting this tooth and nail for years and years.
All the long lines and groping and all that shit are completely unnecessary.
Daddy was a military pilot.
Whenever we would be watching a (dumb) TV movie where there was an aircraft with a situation on board, Daddy would say, "GET THE AIRCRAFT ON THE GROUND AND LET THE EXPERTS HANDLE THE PROBLEM."
Secure cockpit doors make that totally possible.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @03:22AM
All the long lines and groping and all that shit are completely unnecessary.
Only if you believe that the point is airplane security. They are a necessary part of delaying the realization that productivity has advance to the point that we have more people willing to work than we have demand to be working. So they create a bunch of TSA jobs which reduce worker productivity for business travelers and cuts into private citizens' free time. So now the TSA agents have jobs, companies hire more people to offset company time lost in airport lines, and we have to pay someone to do the things around the house we couldn't get to because we added 4 hours of airport time to our holiday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:26AM
Within a few months following 9/11, every door to every airliner's cockpit was replaced with a secure one.
Which was then proven to be an effective way of locking the pilot out of the cockpit, so you can crash the plane without being disturbed.
Unfortunately that happened in Germany, so nothing game of it. Had it happened in the US, those secure doors would have been outlawed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @11:29AM
Your sample of 1 is completely unimpressive.
You also failed to mention that it was a cockpit crew member who went bananas.
...and that Malaysian guy appears to have augered -his- aircraft into the sea with the cockpit crew still in the cockpit.
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