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Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 14 2015, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ministry-of-Love dept.

captain_nifty writes:

As reported here

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: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday August 14 2015, @06:00PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Friday August 14 2015, @06:00PM (#222929)

    But there is a marked difference between something being "commonly known" to be happening and knowing with facts that something is happening.

    Yes, and there was good reason to believe it was happening even before Snowden came along, and even some talk about it. Snowden gave us more evidence, more details, and sparked lots of debate, which is good.

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