Released last week after a two month detention for contempt,
whistleblower Chelsea Manning is facing a potential return to legal
limbo, as prosecutors call on her to testify at another grand jury.
Manning was held for refusing to testify at the first anti-WikiLeaks grand jury, and they released her when that jury ended. This new, very similar jury, wants to ask the same questions she refused to ask the last time.
Her lawyers were challenging the legality of her first detention, as US
law only allows contempt detentions if there is a chance it will coerce
the person into testifying, and clearly it wasn’t working. The courts
probably don’t want to face establishing that precedent, even though it
is the law, so they ended the first detention on a technicality.
Seemingly the only reason they might not re-detain Manning for the same
reason this time is that they’ll certainly face the same legal
challenge. Having gotten around it the first time by just holding her
until the new grand jury expires.
As if the legal system isn’t enough of a joke cum criminal enterprise. Gotta loveit… when billionaires can get caught pimpin other people’s children on their jet plane with renound attorneys and ex-presidents and get free night lodging, but are free during the days… If you don’t know the cast of chapters in this drama, you are a low information cluck. This has got to be the story of the century, if not for the disdain of the 1% who believe in free enterprise buying and selling, yes other people’s children…!!!!!!!!!! Which makes ones like Manning, & Snoden a menace to their lifestyle. But makes Manning a criminal and Snowden a traitor.. If only in the sort of world that hit JFK…
I couldn’t agree more, George. Yes, billionaires can get caught pimping other people’s children on Epstein’s jet plane with renowned lawyers and ex-presidents (Bill Clinton, for one) and get free night lodging, but are free during the days.
This has got to be the story of the century, if not for the disdain of the 1% who believe in free enterprise buying and selling, yes, other people’s children!!! Which makes ones like Manning and Snowden a menace to their lifestyles, but makes Manning a criminal and Snowden a traitor .. If only in the sort of world that hit JFK .. That’s so true.
Get out of the USA, Chelsea. The deep state will find some way to silence you. Run for your life… NOW!
I agree with the sentiment, but, it has gotten to the point where there is nowhere to hide. The Federal Government of the United States of America is quickly becoming a totalitarian world super-state. They can figure out where anyone is in the world, if you are important enough to them, and their ability to bring them back and jail or execute them is almost unlimited. We have to face them here at home, or there will be no safe place to escape to.
I don’t know what “facing them here at home” even means anymore. The judicial system has become so politicized that Manning has no chance in the courts. The MSM puts out nothing but CIA approved propaganda. She would spend the rest of her days locked up in some secret torture chamber and no one would even know about it past the next news cycle.
Snowden had the right idea… Flee to somewhere beyond the reach of the Anglo-Zionist empire, the new “Reich” that has come to dominate so much of the planet.
Yes, Snowden did have the right idea, Thomas. I also agree that Chelsea Manning needs to do what Snowden did – that is, flee to the Russian Embassy in DC, and then, to Russia itself. She’ll be just as safe there as Snowden is, and the US Empire can never get their hands on them.
The US authorities haven’t been able to get Snowden back; and they won’t be able to get Manning back either, once she enters the Russian Embassy, and rides in an Embassy limousine to Reagan Nat. Airport for a flight to Russia.
Just curious, (I actually don’t know the answer) what are Tulsi Gabbard’s statements regarding Manning, Assange, and Snowden?
The US is no longer a Constitutional Republic, which its Founders conceived in 1787; instead it’s very similar to the 1924 USSR. The only difference is, the actual extermination of Christians and other dissidents hasn’t yet occurred. If a Communist aka Democrat candidate (all but Tulsi Gabbard) wins the 2020 presidential election, the entire picture will change .. The Bolsheviks won’t wait until Trump leaves office in January of 2021; they’ll murder both Trump and Pence and seize control. This will ignite a bloody civil war that’ll break up this country.