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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: 3, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2015, @03:02PM
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. There were ALWAYS results when a congress critter got a letter from one of his constituents.
Did Bradley write to a congress critter? Fuck no. He wasn't looking right a wrong - he was looking to HURT PEOPLE!
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @05:46PM
Considering all service members swear an oath to defend the constitution, I consider every last one of them an oathbreaker if there is even a single unconstitutional law on the books they don't bring up arms to take out.
(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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 14 2015, @06:57PM
There were ALWAYS results when a congress critter got a letter from one of his constituents.
Maybe I deserve a big "whoosh" but you can't possibly be serious, can you?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 15 2015, @01:21AM
Yes, I am serious. At the very least, a well-written letter to a congress person from a service member causes a letter to be written to that service member's commanding officer. At the most, heads roll over the contents of a well written letter. People who want out almost always get a discharge after writing their congress critter. When someone has exhausted all other appeals, congress has the ultimate authority over each and every officer in the Navy. Perhaps I should point out that each and every officer's commission comes from congress? Ditto with warrant officers, and senior NCO's. The president is the commander in chief, but congress decides who holds rank in the military.
The commanding officer whose troops are constantly writing to congress in protest of his decisions doesn't have much of a future in the military.
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC