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Army: Manning to lose transgender benefits
The Hill ^ | January 18, 2017 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 01/18/2017 6:09:47 PM PST by jazusamo

The Army says former private Chelsea Manning will lose her military healthcare benefits despite President Obama’s commutation of her prison sentence.

“If Pvt. Manning is discharged with a dishonorable discharge, she will lose her entitlement to [military] benefits, including gender-transition care at [military] medical treatment facilities,” Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told USA Today Wednesday.

Smith said Manning’s dishonorable discharge was included in the terms of the 35-year prison sentence imposed on her in 2013.

Manning was convicted of leaking classified information about U.S. national security activities that were later publicly disclosed by WikiLeaks.

Smith said Manning could appeal her discharge determination, noting a failed appeal would ultimately result in dishonorable discharge from the Army.

Manning would also be barred from Veterans Affairs (VA) Department benefits under that status, Smith added.

The Army has been providing Manning with treatment for gender dysphoria, USA Today said, including hormone treatments.

Manning was also a candidate for gender-reassignment surgery, it continued, which would have been paid for under the Pentagon’s new policy for transgender troops.

USA Today added the VA, meanwhile, has also provided treatment to veterans struggling with gender dysphoria for several years.

Manning had already served seven years of her prison sentence when the White House announced Obama’s commutation Tuesday.

The former solider was originally scheduled for release in 2045 and will now regain her freedom on May 17, 2017 instead.

Obama defended his decision Wednesday, meanwhile, noting he is satisfied with the severity of Manning’s punishment so far.

“It has been my view given that she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime,” he said during his final press conference as president.

“[It is] that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence,” Obama added. "I feel very comfortable that justice has been served.”

Manning, who was initially serving the longest sentence ever imposed for a leak conviction, tried committing suicide twice during her incarceration.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bradleymanning; insanity; linguisticgymnastics; manning; obama; traitormanning; traitorobama; tranny; treason
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To: EinNYC
chop chop...
41 posted on 01/18/2017 7:15:31 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: hondact200
100%
42 posted on 01/18/2017 7:16:16 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: jazusamo

Lorena Bobbitt will handle things, just fine.


43 posted on 01/18/2017 7:17:01 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Chode
chop chop...

Do you mean the hated boy parts or do you mean something higher up?

The BEST part of this disgusting commutation and big F-U to the U.S. public by Odungo is that Bradley won't be able to get his free girly-izing treatment on Uncle Sam's tab. Now he'll have to pay for it himself. Hopefully, this will drive him to a successful suicide instead of screwing it up like he's done before. Can't even kill himself, even with several tries!

Can you imagine his use to any military entity? Maybe as target practice.

44 posted on 01/18/2017 7:20:04 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: jazusamo

Well,there’s always Medicaid.So we get to pay to have his itty,bitty doodle chopped off and his estrogen shots after all.


45 posted on 01/18/2017 7:33:39 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: EinNYC
i think his suicide "attempts" are simply ploys for sympathy and attention

that said, maybe he really will give it a real try once there's no more spotlight

46 posted on 01/18/2017 7:34:49 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: carriage_hill

LOL! Yep, Lorena provede that.


47 posted on 01/18/2017 7:37:51 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Chode

48 posted on 01/18/2017 7:38:18 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is Fake News)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They probably brainwashed him/her to commit an act of violence and that is why he/she got her/his sentence commuted I am serious.


49 posted on 01/18/2017 7:52:44 PM PST by funfan
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To: jazusamo

Heard on Dana Lash that he/she is taking voice lesson to talk more like a girl.
I think the simple fact is that Obama is in love with him/her.


50 posted on 01/18/2017 7:53:39 PM PST by sweetiepiezer (Deplorable Winner.)
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To: NorthMountain
a little quick, but it'd work
51 posted on 01/18/2017 7:55:07 PM PST by Chode (may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
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To: jazusamo

They should cut his penis off first.


52 posted on 01/18/2017 8:04:31 PM PST by usmcobra (Happiness is a belt fed weapon.)
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To: jazusamo

“He” ought to be billed for his gender whatever treatments, on taxpayer dime.


53 posted on 01/18/2017 8:04:46 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: jazusamo

Oh, poor baby!

I’ll be more than happy to give him a boxcutter and a lead bullet to bite down on while he removes the last vestiges of his manhood.


54 posted on 01/18/2017 8:07:35 PM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: jazusamo

Don’t you just hurl whenever this homosexual male in a dress and wig is called “her?”


55 posted on 01/18/2017 8:10:33 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (January 20, 2017....America's liberation day approaches.....)
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To: Rainier1789

A Remington 870 with some 00 buckshot would do the trick too.


56 posted on 01/18/2017 8:11:06 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: jazusamo

BWAHAHAHAHA


57 posted on 01/18/2017 8:13:03 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: jazusamo

Why are articles referring to this man as a ‘she’. News is supposed to promote truth—and there is no way that man can ever be a “she”.

This Marxist destruction of the meaning of words is how they have flipped Good and Evil. We can’t allow the destruction of our Language so that all traditions and history can be revised and destroyed and eliminated “for the children”. The children are being made stupid so they can’t even tell if someone is a man or woman-—basic truth/basic science.!!!! And that is the point of the Germans in 1800s—the homosexuals who formed the boy scouts in Germany so he could seduce and rape all the young males.

This warping and corrupting children with this irrational Marxist “gender” cr*0 has to END!!!!! Reason and Logic and Virtue depend on it.

They want to create a worldview in little children which is totally removed from Reality (and Truth (God)) so Slavery is Freedom , Up is Down and Boys are Girls. In radical egalitarianism there can be no differences, no identity, no biological connections, so people will not love their offspring and care about them. Marxism destroys the Natural family and ALL natural instincts in children by conditioning and brainwashing.


58 posted on 01/18/2017 8:13:32 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Gene Eric

I know.... Because not one bit of their “condition” is service connected.


59 posted on 01/18/2017 8:14:49 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: jazusamo

He could start a gofundme thingie and collect a million in donations in a few days.... he’s a hero to many folks.


60 posted on 01/18/2017 10:08:00 PM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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