Posted on 09/25/2017 11:36:10 AM PDT by jerod
Chelsea Manning, the controversial former U.S. intelligence analyst who was convicted in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history, says she been denied entry into Canada.
On Monday, Manning tweeted that she's been "permanently banned" from entering Canada. She included a picture of a letter that appears to alert the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship that Manning has not been authorized to enter Canada and is "inadmissible" due to her prior convictions.
The name of the sender of the letter has been redacted.
The letter cites Manning's espionage charges and goes on to say "if committed in Canada this offence would equate to an indictable offence, namely treason."
Manning has been lauded as a whistleblower and condemned as a traitor for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010 while still known as Pte. 1st Class Bradley Manning.
In 2013, she was convicted on 20 counts, including six involving the Espionage Act.
In one of his last acts as president, Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence, and she was released from military prison in May after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence.
Manning, 29, refuted that comparison of charges online and said she would be challenging her Canadian denial at a future hearing.
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Convert to Islam and Canada’s doors will open wide.
Given that people with a recent DUI are denied admittance to Canada, I am not surprised by this.
That is just so MEAN. I hope (s)he and all his/her followers will throw a hissy fit over it. Jumping off a bridge might make an even more fabulous protest.
Obama commuted your sentence. He did not give you a pardon.
You are still a convicted felon.
Most decent countries will not admit a known felon.
What is so hard to understand about this?
“She”?
How long will that charade be perpetuated?
Must suck to be him/her.
“Oh Canadaaaaa...”
Good on you!
Maybe Trump will give her/it/him a pardon... April Fools!
Too bad we took him/her back.
Maybe he should go down on his knees..................
Wow, someone in Canada still has a brain, eh?
Entirely predicktable.
Who’s Chelsea Manning?
Oh, they mean BRADLEY Manning, the traitorous little punkass who compromised the largest trove of classified information in the country’s history..
If Stephen Harper were still PM, this would mean something. But our former drama school teacher will probably overturn this decision.
Why does he/she want to come to Canada anyway? A visit, or to move here?
If Stephen Harper were still PM, this would mean something. But our former drama school teacher will probably overturn this decision.
Why does he/she want to come to Canada anyway? A visit, or to move here?
Should be expected, given what he did.
And tell everyone he's Colin Kaepernick.
My brother and a friend of his recently went for a ride on their motorcycles and were going to go into Canada but we’re denied because my brother got a DUO forty years ago.
“It”
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