Tag: Bradley Manning

Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army whistleblower sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified U.S. State Department and military documents in 2010 regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is coming home.

Who is Chelsea Manning? Chelsea Manning is a former private first class in the US Army and whistleblower who leaked 700,000 classified US...

“He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future."

"Just the threat of getting charged is enough to chill that journalistic practice. It sends a real scary message to those people who do this for a living.”

Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

The ruling caps a more than three-year-long legal saga against Manning both unprecedented in its scope and controversy.

Manning still faces 90 years in prison.

“This verdict is act of aggression against a free press, civic society, and the conscience of a young man.”

Trusting me with a drone is no more ridiculous than allowing the executive branch to unilaterally determine which civil liberties and human rights to recognize, as if an option exists.

"It's the largest leak trial in U.S. history. It has ramifications, wide ramifications."