Chelsea Manning Jailed For Refusing To Testify In WikiLeaks Case

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Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.

Manning, a former US army intelligence analyst said she has refused to testify because she objects to the secrecy of the grand jury process, and had already revealed everything she knew at her court martial.

The judge said she will remain in jail until she testifies or until the grand jury concludes its work.

RT reports: Manning received a subpoena from the US District Court in January.

She appeared before a grand jury on Wednesday and invoked her First, Fourth and Sixth Amendment rights. She said the questions pertained to her 2010 disclosures of the American military’s misconduct, and she had answered those extensively during her 2013 court-martial.

Those disclosures landed her in prison with a 35-year sentence that was commuted in 2017. On her way to the Friday hearing, Manning said she was prepared to go back to jail.

Attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen reportedly said it would be “an act of tremendous cruelty” to send Manning, who is a transgender public figure, back to jail, where she would face dangers to her safety and health, the Washington Post reports.

Manning will remain in detention until she either changes her mind and testifies, or until “the end of the life of the grand jury,” Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled.

Though Manning’s subpoena does not name Assange specifically, the cases are believed to be related because Manning leaked her trove of classified and sensitive military and diplomatic data to WikiLeaks, and the subpoena was issued at the request of a federal prosecutor assigned to handle the consequences of the inadvertent reveal of the Assange indictment.

Charges against Julian Assange remain sealed, though their existence was recently inadvertently revealed. It is believed that as soon as Assange sets foot outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the UK will extradite him to the US, where he could potentially be charged under the Espionage Act like Manning was.

4 Comments

  1. Get real… this thing is a fucking BLOKE……have a closer look…its a fucking BLOKE…not a woman

  2. I wonder how the US Constitution is going to be abused to keep herhim out of Federal prison?

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