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Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be held in jail until she testifies before a grand jury or that grand jury is no longer operating, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Friday.
Most of the hearing at which prosecutors argued for Manning to be held in contempt was sealed, but the court was open to the public for Judge Claude M. Hilton's ruling. "I've found you in contempt," Hilton said. He ordered her to custody immediately, "either until you purge yourself or the end of the life of the grand jury."
Manning was called to testify in an investigation into WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website she shared classified documents with back in 2010. Manning served seven years of a 35 year prison sentence for her leak before receiving a commutation from President Barack Obama.
Outside court before the hearing, Manning said she was prepared to go to jail. "These secret proceedings tend to favor the government," she said. "I'm always willing to explain things publicly."
Older article. Also at BBC, The Guardian, and Associated Press.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:39AM (1 child)
Asking for politeness would be reasonable. You are not doing that. You are making demands, and then attacking people who disagree or who had a different notion of what is "obvious."
How did this thread start? Someone absolutely had to "correct" the pronoun used by AC, when pronouns have nothing at all to do with the story, and it's clear that AC doesn't give two hoots about which pronoun is preferred and deliberately used the opposite one. But SJWs have to score their virtue points somehow, don't they?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:11PM
Found the asshole