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posted by n1 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the home-sweet-home dept.

Chelsea Manning has been freed from the Fort Leavenworth military prison, according to a US Army spokesperson:

In January she tweeted that she wanted to move to Maryland after being released, a state where she previously lived. On Monday she tweeted: "Two more days until the freedom of civilian life ^_^ Now hunting for private #healthcare like millions of Americans =P".

Manning will remain on active army duty while her military court conviction remains under appeal. She will have healthcare benefits but will be unpaid, the army says. An online campaign set up by her attorney has raised $150,000 (£115,725) to pay for her living expenses for the first year after her release. If the appeal is denied, she could be dishonourably discharged from the army, US media say.

The mentioned Chelsea Manning Welcome Home Fund. Also at NPR, NYT, and CNN.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @02:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @02:20AM (#511503)

    > Thank you for sharing your observation. Does it have some relation to what I wrote?

    Seems like hemo's hate-on for hillary is now bending towards obama too.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday May 18 2017, @06:16AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday May 18 2017, @06:16AM (#511557) Journal

    Obama:

    • Expanded GWB's reprehensible policy of due process free detention based on secret legal memos, to include execution.
    • Tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan to more than 3x GWB's max.
    • Persecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all other presidents combined -- about 4x
    • Expanded the number of wars we are in to include 7 or 8 countries in total.
    • Libyan war destroyed the War Powers Act, the great liberal achievement to come out of the Vietnam War and designed to prevent others. Remember that now that Trump is office and remember who to blame if he starts a war w/o consulting Congress.
    • Excused torturers making it much more likely for the policy to be expanded under Trump.
    • Dropped over 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone.
    • Mass surveillance
    • Prosecuted zero Wall St. fraud. The S&L crisis was something like 1/40th the size of the recent meltdown and about 1000 banksters did Federal prison time. Remember that next time they act with impunity and we have to pay the bill.

    Yeah -- Obama is super awesome. If you are Republican.