Manning given 35 years for leaks........US creates ' whistle blower '..Martyr...

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21 August 2013 Last updated at 15:20

Manning given 35 years for leaksBreaking news

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Bradley Manning showed little emotion as he was sentenced, but supporters
shouted words of thanks

The US soldier convicted of handing a trove of secret government documents to
anti-secrecy website Wikileaks has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, was convicted in July of 20 charges against
him, including espionage.Last week, he apologised for hurting the US and for "the
unexpected results" of his actions.Prosecutors had asked for a 60-year sentence in
order to send a message to future potential leakers.

Pte Manning will receive credit for time he has already served in jail, plus 112 days'
credit in recompense for the harsh conditions of his confinement immediately after
his arrest.Military prisoners can earn time off their sentences for good behaviour
but must serve at least one-third of any prison sentence before they can become
eligible for parole.

'Thank you, Bradley'

In the military courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland, on Tuesday, Judge Col Denise
Lind declared Pte Manning would be dishonourably discharged from the US Army
and forfeit some of his pay.Pte Manning stood at attention and showed no emotion
as the sentence was delivered, but sat down for a moment and clasped his hands
together, before being led away.

As he left the court room, his supporters shouted: "We'll wait for you, Bradley",
and "Thank you, Bradley, we love you", the BBC's Tom Geoghegan reports.

While stationed in Iraq in 2010, the junior intelligence analyst passed hundreds of
thousands of battlefield reports and diplomatic cables to Wikileaks, the pro-
transparency group headed by Julian Assange.

Pte Manning said in a pre-trial hearing he leaked the secret files in the hopes of
sparking a public debate about US foreign policy and the military.

In a statement during the sentencing hearing, Pte Manning told the court martial at
Fort Meade, Maryland that "the last three years have been a learning experience for
me".

His defence lawyers are expected to make a statement later on Wednesday.

The verdict and sentence will be reviewed, and possibly reduced, by a military
district commander and will be automatically reviewed by the Army Court of
Criminal Appeals.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International and the Bradley Manning Support Network have
announced an online petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon Pte
Manning.

Isolated deployment

As an intelligence analyst in the US Army, he had access to a large amount of very
sensitive information, despite his junior rank.The young soldier grew up in
Oklahoma, and in Wales, where his mother is from, and reportedly joined the US
Army to help pay for college.A military psychiatrist has told the court that Pte
Manning had struggled with his gender identity and wanted to become a woman at
the time of the leak.

Navy Capt David Moulton testified that Pte Manning had felt abandoned by friends
and family during his time in Iraq and that his relationship with his boyfriend had
hit a rough patch.

According to evidence presented by the defence at his trial, military supervisors
ignored erratic behaviour from Pte Manning, which included trying to grab a gun
during a counselling session.

His lawyers said such actions had shown that Pte Manning had not been fit for duty
overseas. He became increasingly isolated after his deployment to Iraq in 2009, the
court heard.

Defence lawyers said Pte Manning was treated unfairly in solitary confinement in
Quantico, Virginia and in a cell at Camp Arifjan, a US Army installation in Kuwait.

Pte Manning told the court he remembered thinking: "I'm going to die, I'm stuck
inside this cage."

He enabled Wikileaks to publish sensitive messages between US diplomats and
records of military incidents in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a
cockpit video showing a US Apache helicopter killing 12 people in the Iraqi capital in
2007.

The revelations caused significant embarrassment to the US government, and US
officials have said the disclosures harmed US relations and the war effort in
Afghanistan.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23784288

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Free Manning! 'Apache gunner should stand trial, not Bradley'


Pre....sentence interview...

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


A military judge is deliberating a sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning
in the WikiLeaks case, which will be announced in several hours. Manning
faces up to 90 years in prison, with prosecutors asking for at least 60 years
behind bars for the whistleblower.


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WikiLeaks raw US Apache footage YouTube

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Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Leaking to WikiLeaks


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Published on 21 Aug 2013


Bradley Manning, the Army private convicted of leaking hundreds of thousands of
classified documents to the website WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in a
military prison today.

Manning, 25, and a former Army intelligence analyst, was convicted July 30.

He was found guilty of 20 of the 22 charges he faced, mostly for espionage, theft
and fraud. But a judge found him not guilty of the most serious charge of aiding the
enemy, which carries a life sentence.

The 20 charges originally carried the possibility of 136 years in prison, but Judge
Denise Lind later granted a defense motion that reduced the potential maximum
sentence to 90 years.

Bradley Manning Guilty on Most Charges, but Not Aiding Enemy

At the end of the sentencing phase of the trial, Army prosecutors said Manning
should serve at least 60 years in prison. But Manning's defense attorney argued
that he should not serve more than 25 years. In his closing arguments during the
two-week sentencing phase, Manning's defense attorney, David Coombs, continued
to portray Manning as an naïve young soldier who believed he could change the
world. Coombs said Manning had "pure intentions" in releasing the documents to
WikiLeaks. "At that time, Pfc. Manning really, truly, genuinely believed that this
information could make a difference."

But in court documents released earlier this week that explained her verdicts, Lind
said Manning's conduct "was both wanton and reckless." She added that it "was of
a heedless nature that made it actually and imminently dangerous to others."

Manning last week apologized for his actions in a short statement he read during
the trial's sentencing phase. "I'm sorry that my actions hurt people," Manning
said. "I'm sorry that they hurt the United States.

"When I made these decisions, I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people."

He said he was sorry for the "unintended consequences" of his actions and offered
that with hindsight, "I should have worked more aggressively inside the system."

Though he acknowledged that "I must pay a price for my decisions and actions" he
also expressed the hope to "return to a productive place in society."

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said Manning's apology was a "forced
decision" aimed at reducing his potential jail sentence. In a statement he said the
apology had been "extorted from him under the overbearing weight of the United
States military justice system."

The court-martial began three years after Manning was first detained in Iraq for
suspicion of having leaked the video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed
several Iraqi civilians. He was subsequently charged with the leak of 750,000
documents that were a mix of U.S. military battlefield reports from Iraq and
Afghanistan and diplomatic cables. The release of the documents has been
described as the most extensive leak of classified information in U.S. history.

During the nearly two-month court martial, prosecutors presented detailed
computer forensics of Manning's computer activity during his deployment to Iraq in
late-2009 to mid-2010. They said the evidence showed that within weeks of his
arrival in Baghdad, Manning had begun searching classified military computer
networks for materials that were of interest to WikiLeaks.

[Dennis Leahy]

That's right, would-be whistleblowers. Let that be a lesson to you! The US Government will not tolerate whistleblowers. "If you see something, say something" does not apply to the rulers, just to the serfs. If you see one of your fellow citizens doing something wrong:

1.) make sure they are not a politician, military, corporate or banking management person, or affluent

2.) if #1 is not correct, then blow the whistle on them, and we will persecute them to the full extent of the law - even making up laws as we go along, whenever we deem necessary - and throw them in one of our for-profit prisons. Here's your chance to make some real money: buy stock in the for-profit prison corporations, then start whistleblowing on all the citizens you can find (except those excluded by #1.) The more prisoners, the higher your dividends.

USA! USA! USA! Home of the brave (new world.)

Dennis

[Wind]

What a sad state of affairs.

[Cidersomerset]

USA! USA! USA! Home of the brave (new world.)

Dennis

Its the same over here Dennis as was proven with
David Miranda.............Rule Britania !!!

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[happyexpat]

When Whistleblowers Disrupt Transparency (http://www.thenation.com/blog/175826/when-whistleblowers-disrupt-transparency)
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[Gekko]

This, after his dignity was sold to appease the mighty.

I remember reading comments from the trial about him being 'naive to think that he could change the world'. I guess that's it, then. Never attempt to distract or awaken the machine while it munches its path towards self-destruction.

Maybe not surprising, but sure as heck very sad.

[Cidersomerset]

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years behind bars

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


A US military judge has sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison
in the WikiLeaks case. The Private was earlier found guilty of 20 criminal counts,
including espionage and theft. Manning will be credited with the 1,294 days he spent
in pre-trial confinement plus an additional 112 days. He was also dishonorably
discharged, saw his rank reduced to private from private first class and was forced
to forfeit all pay and benefits. No additional fine, however, was levied against him.
Manning will have to serve a third of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.
RT web producer Andrew Blake, who was in the courtroom during sentencing,
reports live from Ft. Meade.

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35 years: RT's on-air discussion panel anticipating Manning's sentence


columnist James Kirchick goes off at a tangent accusing RT of
being a Kremlin mouthpiece and anti gay and thought Manning
had already had to much publicity......Even though Bradley is
gay , oh well......

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Just before the
sentence was pronounced RT's news presenter discussed Manning's
trial & verdict with news Editor, Ivor Crotty and correspondent,
Lucy Kafanov. They were also joined by Michael Kohn, who is President
and General Counsel for the National Whistleblower Center, as well as
reporter and columnist James Kirchick who instead of sticking to the
topic went off on a self-promoting rant that was not even tangentially
related to the matter at hand.

[Cidersomerset]

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years behind bars

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


A US military judge has sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning
to 35 years in prison. Manning faced up to 90 years behind bars,
while prosecutors sought to put the whistleblower away for a
minimum of six decades

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22 August 2013 Last updated at 00:01

Bradley Manning's disrupted family lifeBy Tara McKelvey

BBC News Magazine


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The trial of Bradley Manning has cast light on how he came to leak thousands of
classified documents, and on his troubled childhood in a family splintered by
divorce and alcoholism.Susan Manning liked vodka - it was easier to hide. "If you
put vodka in certain drinks, you can't really smell it," said her daughter, Casey
Major, in a courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland, last week.

She also liked rum and beer - and, really, whatever was in the house.

When she got pregnant for the second time, friends and family had mixed feelings.
One relative, Debra Van Alstyne, testifying in court, said: "At first I said, 'Oh great.'
Then I thought, 'Oh no.'"

At the time, Major was 11. Sitting in the witness stand, Major, now 36 and a
homemaker who lives in Oklahoma City, counted on her fingers - adding up the
weeks that her mother was pregnant - and drinking. She put her hands in her lap.

"At least through the first trimester," she said. Her brother weighed about 6lb (2.7
kg) when he was born.

Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, showed signs of foetal alcohol syndrome, said
Capt David Moulton, a clinical psychiatrist, who testified in court that day.
Moulton described Manning's facial features that characterised the syndrome, such
as his smooth, thin upper lip, and looked over at him in the courtroom.

Manning has been found guilty of 20 charges, including multiple counts of
espionage, theft of government data and computer fraud. He will be demoted to E1
, a lower rank of private and the lowest rank in the military. On Tuesday he was
sentenced to 35 years, significantly less than the 90 that he could have spent in
prison.

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It is not clear to what extent, if any, the testimony about his upbringing affected
the decision of the military judge, Denise Lind. By then, she may have had a good
idea what she planned to do. As retired military judge Gary Solis explained, she had
already "heard the facts and the arguments from both sides".

Nevertheless, the stories about his upbringing leave an impression.

And regardless of the impact they may have had on the judge, this testimony helps
to flesh out Manning's story, revealing what his childhood and adolescence in
Oklahoma and Wales were like. His mother naturally played a role in shaping him
during those years. The descriptions of her life and her role as a parent help to
show how he became the person he is today - for some, a traitor; to others, a hero.

Whether he is seen as cowardly or courageous, he is known around the world. For
most of the controversy over the past three years, however, his mother has
remained off stage. Susan Manning, 59, who lives in Wales, gave an interview to
the Daily Mail earlier this month, but otherwise has said little or nothing to
journalists. Efforts to reach her through friends and family for this article have been
unsuccessful.For Tim Price, author of The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, who
has had tea at her house, she is "just a Welsh mum who loves her children very
much".



Her Daily Mail interview

Susan Fox, as she was known before her marriage, is from Haverfordwest,
Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales. She grew up with eight brothers and sisters.
In the 1970s, Brian Manning, a US Navy man, was stationed at nearby Cawdor
Barracks.One day in the early to mid-1970s, she was shopping at Woolworths and
met Brian. They fell for each other and eventually decided to move to the US.

She had grown up in a noisy, crowded house and lived near cousins and other
relatives in Wales. Suddenly she found herself in rural Oklahoma, with no close
family, and in many ways cut off from the world around her.Brian Manning worked
as a project manager for Hertz, and they lived on five acres of land outside
Crescent, a town in Logan County. They had a pond, a swing, two horses and a
dog, recalled Major in court. The nearest neighbour lived a quarter of a mile away,
and her mother did not know how to drive.

In addition, it is not clear if she was fully literate. "I know she can read," said
Major. "I'm not too sure about the writing part."

She talked with friends and family on the phone - and drank. When she was
pregnant, she continued to drink, "but not as much", said Major. After her son was
born, she went back to her routine.

She was "very friendly" when she started drinking in the middle of the day, her
daughter recalled. "As the evening wore on, she would become sad. She would
drink until she passed out or went to bed. In the morning she was mean, very
mean. She would yell from the other room to get her cigarettes or to make her a
cup of tea."

Major took care of her brother when he was a baby, bringing him milk at night
when he cried. Her mother did not get up.As Major testified about their childhood,
her brother's face, marked with pimples, was expressionless. He fiddled with a
ballpoint pen, his hands bony and pale. Bradley had been a "happy kid", she told
the court. "He had little trucks that he played with in the dirt."

As a photo of him as a child was shown on an overhead screen, a smile flickered
across his face. He clicked his pen. Major choked up and reached for a tissue.

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Supporters with "Free Bradley" banners outside the hearing, 21 August 2013
Their parents' marriage started to crumble in the 1990s, and one night her mother
hit a low point.

"My mom took a full bottle of Valium and then she woke me up in the middle of the
night and told me she had done it to kill herself," Major said.

She called 911 and was told it would take too long for the ambulance to arrive. She
helped her mother into the back seat of the car and told her father to sit with her
and make sure she was breathing. He climbed in the front.

"Unfortunately my 12-year-old brother had to get in the back and make sure our
mother was still alive," she said.

The couple separated in 2000, and afterwards their mother moved back to
Haverfordwest with her son.

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Bradley Manning - and guards - at his trial
Manning joined the US Army in 2007 and was sent to Iraq, where he floundered.

At one point, he was found on the floor of a supply room, "curled up in a ball with a
Gerber knife", said Moulton. In May 2010, he released the classified material to
Wikileaks and was arrested.

Two years ago, his mother sent a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague,
asking consular officials to visit him in a military jail in the US. In her letter, she
said she had travelled to Quantico, Virginia, to see him.

During the sentencing hearings last week, however, she was not in court.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23780581

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Price for Truth: 'Manning gets harsh sentence while exposed criminals stay free'

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years
behind bars. The former Army private, who leaked thousands of
classified US documents to Wikileaks, will also be dishonourably
discharged. Human rights activist Peter Thatchell joins
RT to discuss Manning's sentence.

[bogeyman]

Jimmy Carter was right the United States is no longer a functioning democracy.

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Bradley Manning asks President Obama to pardon him

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


Another chapter in the Bradley Manning case ended on Wednesday in Fort Meade,
Maryland after the whistleblower was sentenced to 35 years in prison. According
to Manning's attorney, the defense will not rest and will soon seek a pardon from
President Obama for the soldier responsible for disclosing sensitive military
information to the website WikiLeaks. But if Obama refuses to pardon Manning,
will he serve his complete term behind bars? Jesselyn Radack with the
Government Accountability Project and retired Col. Morris Davis sound off on the
sentencing of Bradley Manning and explain what this means for future whistleblowers.

[Cidersomerset]

Ron Paul supports Snowden and Manning in Larry King interview

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Published on 21 Aug 2013


With Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison for his
role in releasing sensitive military information to WikiLeaks
and the US government's hunt for Edward Snowden for
revealing the NSA's spying program, being a whistleblower
isn't an easy task. As some people see the two individuals
as traitors, some people believe that these leaks are essential
to gaining full government transparency. In an interview with
Larry King, former Congressman Ron Paul expresses his
appreciation for the leaked information.

[Cidersomerset]

Video debate: Was Bradley Manning's sentence too lenient?

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[bennycog]

What have they done to this man.. He speaks of Chelsea as if they are another person.. Not him.. Like he has multiple personalities..
Ploy for insanity..
Well funded black projects at work? (mind takeover)

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He has spent most of his detention at Fort Leavenworth military base in Kansas where he was expected to serve his time.
After the announcement, Coombs told NBC Manning has not indicated whether he would be pursuing sex change surgery.
"I don't know about the sex reassignment surgery ... Chelsea hasn't indicated that that would be her desire, but as far as the hormone therapy, yes," he said.

[Jake]

For anyone who doubts the Martyrdom of Manning,,,, Here is a list of 8 Real Spies And Actual Bad Guys Who Got Shorter Sentences Than Bradley Manning (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/shorter-sentences-than-bradley-manning_n_3789754.html?utm_hp_ref=tw)...

1.) William Colton Millay, 16 years for attempting to sell secrets to a Russian spy
2.) David Henry Barnett, 18 years for selling classified documents to Soviet officials
3.) Harold James Nicholson, 23 years for providing highly classified information to Russia
4.) Ana Belen Montes, 25 years for passing classified information to Cuba's government
5.) Earl Edwin Pitts, 27 years for giving classified information to Russian intelligence services
6.) Michael Peri, 30 years for passing defense secrets to communist East Germany
7.) Clayton Lonetree, 30 years for delivering classified information from American embassies to Soviet agents
8.) Albert Sombolay, 34 years for giving a Jordanian intelligence agent key information about the U.S. military buildup ahead of the first Gulf War


And of course there is Private First Class Bradley Manning given a much more brutal sentence for passing document to a website, potentially saving lives.

Decide for yourself.. I think Manning is a Hero!!! :)

[WhiteFeather]

Tough break for Bradley. Ouch 35 Years.
IMO The 3 Stooges in "Big Dick Cheney, Boy George Bush, and Donald Duck Rumsfeld" should then get at least 3 next life Incarnations as a prison term. Perhaps thats what there Karma will precede these dumb dumbs. Justice Indeed.

Peace

W.f.

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WikiLeaks soldier: 'I am Chelsea Manning. I am female'

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Published on 22 Aug 2013


After a judge sentenced Private Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison
on Tuesday, the soldier-turned-whistleblower released a statement
asking to be identified as female. The letter was signed by
Chelsea E. Manning, and the just-sentenced former intelligence
analyst says in it that she wants to receive hormone therapy while
serving time for her role in leaking classified documents to anti-secrecy
website WikiLeaks. RT's Meghan Lopez has more on Manning's transition.

[Omni]

Wow manning went transgender? Crazy twist to this sad state of events.

[bennycog]

And it was a come out in a letter no less.. I hope manning is laughing about this, and I hope he has not had his brain fried so as to live this story :(


Edit: but I must say that I don't care whether he is gay, transsexual or loves feet.. He has turned many heads in this world and I applaud him no matter what.

[Harley]

This short news article from Military.com probably sheds a more accurate light on Manning's official request for 'A Switch-over'.

(Bold is mine)


Manning May Avoid Brig with 'Chelsea' Confession
Aug 22, 2013
Military.com| by Brendan McGarry

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who was convicted of leaking classified intelligence to the website WikiLeaks, may avoid having to serve time at a maximum-security military prison after saying he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman.

Manning said he was transgender on Thursday, a day after being sentenced by a judge to serve a 35-year term. In a statement aired Thursday on NBC's "Today" show, Manning asked to be identified by his new name, "Chelsea," and said he wants to begin hormone treatments to spur bodily change.

"I am Chelsea Manning," he wrote. "I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."

The confession may be an attempt by Manning's defense to get him transferred out of the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the military's only maximum-security facility where its most dangerous criminals are housed, according to Greg Rinckey, managing partner at the law firm Tully Rinckey Pllc in Albany, N.Y.

"This could potentially be a defense ploy to get him out of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, which is where the military sends the worst of the worst," he said in a telephone interview. "It's not a desirable place to go."

During the appeals process, Manning's defense may argue that the military doesn't have special housing for transgendered people at the facility, which is believed to house only men, and that he should be transferred to a federal penitentiary, Rinckey said.

"He's going to be filing motions to try to get his confinement custody moved," he said.

The 25-year-old apologized for passing hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports and diplomatic cables while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010 to WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange. Manning's defense blamed the actions in part on his struggles with a gender-identify disorder and traumatic upbringing.

The soldier faced as many as 90 years in prison after being convicted last month of multiple crimes, including violating the 1917 Espionage Act. The prosecution asked that he serve at least 60 years, while the defense requested a term of no more than 25 years. The sentencing came after a 12-week trial and protracted legal battle.

Manning was hailed as a whistleblower by supporters that include the American Civil Liberties Union, a liberal advocacy group based in New York; Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corp. analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers in protest against the Vietnam War; and numerous Hollywood celebrities who participated in a video released this year, titled "I am Bradley Manning."

Manning is required to serve a third of the sentence before he is eligible for parole. The three and a half years he served awaiting trial will be included in time served. Therefore, he may be eligible for parole in less than 10 years.

Manning was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, though he will remain in the military while serving out the remainder of his sentence. He will continue to receive medical care under the military's health care system, known as Tricare, which is unlikely to cover any transgender treatment, according to Rinckey.

"The military medical system does not cover gender transformation procedures. It's not medically necessary," he said. "The military will say, 'You enlisted as a male. You're a male and you're going to be incarcerated as such.'" http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/08/22/manning-may-avoid-brig-with-chelsea-confession.html?ESRC=todayinmil.sm

However, I doubt that it will work for him, as the last two paragraphs are correct.

You see, as long as he remains a military member, he is the property of the US Gov.

[Cidersomerset]

Manning Trial: Behind the Scenes

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Published on 22 Aug 2013


The trial of Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning,
has come to a close. The military judge sentenced Manning to 35 years.
The court martial in Ft. Meade, MD has been criticized for its secrecy
and increasingly strict security measures. RT Correspondent Liz Wahl
has been reporting on the trial from the beginning and gives you a look
at how it played out.

[Cidersomerset]

Wow manning went transgender? Crazy twist to this sad state of events.

It has been hinted on thru the trial, but still a bit of a surprise he has gone public straight
after the trial.


Manning states he's 'female', wants to live as 'Chelsea'

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Published on 22 Aug 2013


US Army Private Bradley Manning, sentenced to 35 years for leaking
classified documents on Wednesday, announced that he would like to
live out the rest of his life as a woman. The whistleblower has asked
to refer to him by the name Chelsea Manning.

[Agape]

It would not surprise me if he requested hormonal therapy to change him to tiger and bite through the bars to get out to freedom. Even a ZOO might be a better option since there you can at least interact with visitors but cage and is a cage .

He's not done anything to anyone than exposing the truth on top heads dirty little comments about each other vis those infamous 'diplomatic cables' .
For that he will be caged for 35 years and the lawful lies, and lawful killings can continue ?

No I really wish I could turn myself to big mama tiger , run to the court room and carry this boy out , bullets or not , it would make my day . Good captures for journalists and proof that we are still alive ..


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[Gekko]

Manning didn't suddenly become transgender. When I learned of the possibility a few months back, I hoped the news would never see the spotlight. There is nothing shameful about it, but the resulting commentary from the public is difficult to handle.

Treatment of transgender prisoners is horrific. It often means rape, humiliation, and loss of basic rights. If not by guards, then by the collective force of other inmates. It's not something you cook up to receive softer treatment, no matter what intentions in the timing of coming out.

[Agape]

Manning didn't suddenly become transgender. When I learned of the possibility a few months back, I hoped the news would never see the spotlight. There is nothing shameful about it, but the resulting commentary from the public is difficult to handle.

Treatment of transgender prisoners is horrific. It often means rape, humiliation, and loss of basic rights. If not by guards, then by the collective force of other inmates. It's not something you cook up to receive softer treatment, no matter what intentions in the timing of coming out.

I think, they messed with his mind, physical wellbeing and life completely . Not everyone is ready to take all that to his heart . It's your ideals and what you believed is suddenly not true ,
remember the war has two sides at least . The world looks kind of different from the middle of battlefield than from the Oval Office .

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/homeland-security-chelsea-manning_n_3896941.html

Homeland Security Seized Chelsea Manning-Linked Programmer's Electronics Without Reasonable Suspicion



Newly disclosed U.S. government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security Department's practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting a judge's approval.

The documents published Monday describe the case of David House, a young computer programmer in Boston who had befriended Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. agents quietly waited for months for House to leave the country then seized his laptop, thumb drive, digital camera and cellphone when he re-entered the United States. They held his laptop for weeks before returning it, acknowledging one year later that House had committed no crime and promising to destroy copies the government made of House's personal data.

The government turned over the federal records to House as part of a legal settlement agreement after a two-year court battle with the American Civil Liberties Union, which had sued the government on House's behalf. The ACLU said the records suggest that federal investigators are using border crossings to investigate U.S. citizens in ways that would otherwise violate the Fourth Amendment.

The Homeland Security Department declined to discuss the case.

House said he was 22 when he first met Manning, who now is serving a 35-year sentence for one of the biggest intelligence leaks in U.S. history. It was a brief, uneventful encounter at a January 2010 computer science event. But when Manning was arrested later that June, that nearly forgotten handshake came to mind. House, another tech enthusiast, considered Manning a bright, young, tech-savvy person who was trying to stand up to the U.S. government and expose what he believed were wrongheaded politics.

House volunteered with friends to set up an advocacy group they called the Bradley Manning Support Network, and he went to prison to visit Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning.

It was that summer that House quietly landed on a government watchlist used by immigrations and customs agents at the border. His file noted that the government was on the lookout for a second batch of classified documents Manning had reportedly shared with the group WikiLeaks but hadn't made public yet. Border agents were told that House was "wanted for questioning" regarding the "leak of classified material." They were given explicit instructions: If House attempted to cross the U.S. border, "secure digital media," and "ID all companions."

But if House had been wanted for questioning, why hadn't federal agents gone back to his home in Boston? House said the Army, State Department and FBI had already interviewed him.

Instead, investigators monitored passenger flight records and waited for House to leave the country that November for a Mexico vacation with his girlfriend. When he returned, two agents were waiting for him, including one who specialized in computer forensics. They seized House's laptop and detained his computer for seven weeks, giving the government enough time to try to copy every file and key stroke House had made since declaring himself a Manning supporter.

President Barack Obama and his predecessors have maintained that people crossing into U.S. territory aren't protected by the Fourth Amendment. That policy is intended to allow for intrusive searches that keep drugs, child pornography and other illegal imports out of the country. But it also means the government can target travelers for no reason other than political advocacy if it wants, and obtain electronic documents identifying fellow supporters.

House and the ACLU are hoping his case will draw attention to the issue, and show how searching a suitcase is different than searching a computer.

"It was pretty clear to me I was being targeted for my visits to Manning (in prison) and my support for him," said House, in an interview last week.

How Americans end up getting their laptops searched at the border still isn't entirely clear.

The Homeland Security Department said it should be able to act on a hunch if someone seems suspicious. But agents also rely on a massive government-wide system called TECS, named after its predecessor the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.

Federal agencies, including the FBI and IRS, as well as Interpol, can feed TECS with information and flag travelers' files.

In one case that reached a federal appeals court, Howard Cotterman wound up in the TECS system because a 1992 child sex conviction. That "hit" encouraged border patrol agents to detain his computer, which was found to contain child pornography. Cotterman's case ended up before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled this spring that the government should have reasonable suspicion before conducting a comprehensive search of an electronic device; but that ruling only applies to states that fall under that court's jurisdiction, and left questions about what constitutes a comprehensive search.

In the case of House, he showed up in TECS in July 2010, about the same time he was helping to establish the Bradley Manning Support Network. His TECS file, released as part of his settlement agreement, was the document that told border agents House was wanted in the questioning of the leak of classified material.

It wasn't until late October, though, that investigators noticed House's passport number in an airline reservation system for travel to Los Cabos. When he returned to Chicago O'Hare airport, the agents waiting for him took House's laptop, thumb drive, digital camera and cellphone. He was questioned about his affiliation with Manning and his visits to Manning in prison. The agents eventually let him go and returned his cell phone. But the other items were detained and taken to an ICE field office in Manhattan.

Seven weeks after the incident, House faxed a letter to immigration authorities asking that the devices be returned. They were sent to him the next day, via Federal Express.

By then agents had already created an "image" of his laptop, according to the documents. Because House had refused to give the agents his password and apparently had configured his computer in such a way that appeared to stump computer forensics experts, it wasn't until June 2011 that investigators were satisfied that House's computer didn't contain anything illegal. By then, they had already sent a second image of his hard drive to Army criminal investigators familiar with the Manning case. In August 2011, the Army agreed that House's laptop was clean and promised to destroy any files from House's computer.

Catherine Crump, an ACLU lawyer who represented House, said she doesn't understand why Congress or the White House are leaving the debate up to the courts.

"Ultimately, the Supreme Court will need to address this question because unfortunately neither of the other two branches of government appear motivated to do so," said Crump.

House, an Alabama native, said he didn't ask for any money as part of his settlement agreement and that his primary concern was ensuring that a document containing the names of Manning Support Network donors didn't wind up in a permanent government file. The court order required the destruction of all his files, which House said satisfied him.

He is writing a book about his experiences and his hope to create a youth-based political organization. House said he severed ties with the Support Network last year after becoming disillusioned with Manning and WikiLeaks, which he said appeared more focused on destroying America and ruining lives than challenging policy.

"That era was a strange time," House said. "I'm hoping we can get our country to go in a better direction."

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Looks like interesting movie ... guess you've seen it already . I was not around that time .

[Etherios]

For anyone who doubts the Martyrdom of Manning,,,, Here is a list of 8 Real Spies And Actual Bad Guys Who Got Shorter Sentences Than Bradley Manning (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/shorter-sentences-than-bradley-manning_n_3789754.html?utm_hp_ref=tw)...

1.) William Colton Millay, 16 years for attempting to sell secrets to a Russian spy
2.) David Henry Barnett, 18 years for selling classified documents to Soviet officials
3.) Harold James Nicholson, 23 years for providing highly classified information to Russia
4.) Ana Belen Montes, 25 years for passing classified information to Cuba's government
5.) Earl Edwin Pitts, 27 years for giving classified information to Russian intelligence services
6.) Michael Peri, 30 years for passing defense secrets to communist East Germany
7.) Clayton Lonetree, 30 years for delivering classified information from American embassies to Soviet agents
8.) Albert Sombolay, 34 years for giving a Jordanian intelligence agent key information about the U.S. military buildup ahead of the first Gulf War


And of course there is Private First Class Bradley Manning given a much more brutal sentence for passing document to a website, potentially saving lives.

Decide for yourself.. I think Manning is a Hero!!! :)

well i remember reading a meme picture ... comparing the mass killer in Netherlands (i think) and manning ... Manning got 10 or so years more in jail for this. Well i think the US public should really object to this, but they dont care (most of them)