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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: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 19 2017, @02:23AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 19 2017, @02:23AM (#511945) Journal

    Your request is easy to deal with - http://www.history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html [army.mil]

    And, I would like to help you a little to understand that oath. "All enemies, foreign and domestic" Some of America's worst enemies are located inside of the Washington beltway. Others are scattered around the nation, sitting in offices, at the Federal Reserve, on Wall Street, and in "defense" contractor's plants.

    Manning, however, cannot make any valid claim to have attacked any of those enemies. Manning didn't even have the intel necessary to hurt any of those enemies. Instead, Manning took a dump of all the intel he could get, then painted that intel as "war crimes". The most dramatic of those "war crimes", I have gone over in detail in other discussions. The video in which the Reuters correspondent is killed is no crime at all. It is a tragedy, but it is no crime.

    There were crimes committed in Iraq, but Manning didn't expose Abu Ghraib - other people did that.

    The greatest American crime in Iraq was the invasion itself. Responsibility for that rests squarely on GW Bush and his neoconsrevative buddies, all of whom were safe at home, reaping profit from the bloodshed.

    War crimes. Had Manning actually exposed any war crimes, I might despise him less. But, at the end of the day, it always comes back to one thing. Manning was and is a spiteful little bitch, who was trying to hurt his comrades in arms.

    Edward Snowden's actions bear a lot of resemblance to Manning's actions - but Snowden actually exposed real crimes. Snowden has clear motivations, none of which are petty and spiteful. Edward went into this thing, KNOWING that he would be sacrificing his job, and maybe his life. Snowden accepted those risks, and took action to minimize the risks. Manning - thoughtlessly and carelessly snatched everything he could get, and sent it off to the only correspondent he could reach.

    I could go on, but it's time I headed out to work.

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