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Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private convicted of leaking national security secrets, faces a hearing Tuesday for prison infractions that could result in solitary confinement.
Manning, who was intelligence analyst Bradley Manning when arrested in 2010, is charged with disrespect of a prison officer and is accused having books and magazines including Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, among other offenses.
Noteable from the article, it is apparently "disrespect of an officer" to request a lawyer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @05:56PM
The bitch is a traitor. When I was in the service, anyone who had problems could write their congress critters. I helped a couple people to write their letters.
Big fucking deal. The proper solution isn't to write to treacherous pigs in congress; the proper thing to do is to hand the information over to the people. You're too focused on the possibility that some people may get hurt (not by the mere release of the documents, but by actions other people take after seeing said information), but that is ultimately overshadowed by the importance of revealing abuses to the *real* proper channel: The People. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't believe in democracy.
This is the same shit people pull with Snowden. "He should have gone through the 'proper channels'!" The People are the proper channel.