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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 15 2015, @01:20PM
"in control of a heavy weapon"
Was this incident ever reported any higher up the chain of command than a squad sergeant? You know, and I know, that no military is ever going to approve of such an action. The risk would be, that a stronger force than expected shows up to take the weapon. In such a case, the officer or NCO who approved the plan would be guilty of aiding and abbetting the enemy by supplying them with heavy weapons. That doesn't even begin to address the moral issues of the situation.
Something tells me this is one of those stories some guy made up, and it got passed around and around and around.
On the other hand, it COULD just be true, if there was a CIA agent in charge . . .
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