Posted on 03/02/2019 9:35:42 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence officer who was convicted in 2013 of leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks, revealed she was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury regarding an investigation into Julian Assange, the anti-secrecy group’s founder.
Virginia prosecutors have been building a case against Assange that goes back years before it dumped a slew of hacked Democratic documents in 2016 meant to embarrass Hillary Clinton.
Manning, who first revealed the subpoena in an interview with The New York Times, served seven years in prison for leaking secret State Department communications and military documents to WikiLeaks before President Obama commuted her sentence. She told The Times she intends to fight the subpoena.
“Given what is going on, I am opposing this,” she said. “I want to be very forthright I have been subpoenaed. I don’t know the parameters of the subpoena apart from that I am expected to appear. I don’t know what I’m going to be asked.”
“I object strenuously to this subpoena, and to the grand jury process in general,” she added in a statement to The Washington Post. “We’ve seen this power abused countless times to target political speech. I have nothing to contribute to this case and I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this predatory practice.”
Manning said she is scheduled to testify on March 5. A national security prosecutor working on the Assange case reportedly signed the subpoena last month.
Assange is currently living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid arrest on a rape allegation, though it is unclear what the Virginia prosecutors intend to charge him with.
“It’s disappointing but not surprising that the government is continuing to pursue criminal charges against Julian Assange, apparently for his role in uncovering and providing the public truthful information about matters of great public interest,” Barry Pollack, a lawyer for Assange, told The Times.
The Justice Department under the Obama administration declined to charge Assange and WikiLeaks, reportedly believing it could open the door to lawsuits against legitimate media outlets that publish classified documents.
The anti-secrecy group first gained notoriety after it began releasing a bevy of classified documents relating to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, it was thrust into the prosecutorial spotlight after its involvement in the dumping of Democratic documents during the 2016 election.
Are Conservatives so desperate to deny it that they’re willing to defend one?
So, they’re investigating Hillary’s illegal server as well? Lock her up.
Please don’t refer to this queer as a female. He is now and will always be a man. There ain’t enough that he can cut off or mutilate to make him a woman.
Manning is male. Quit the ‘she’ . It’s demeans women. I am sick of hearing the crap. Manning is mentally ill.
Like minds.
If it does maybe we can get Brad on perjury...obstruction...conspiracy...or some other felony.I'd love to see him do the remaining 30 years of his original court martial sentence.
I hope her bag will not clash with her shoes.
Dems need to probe themselves. How many holes does it take to fill a House?
Nope,it's worse than that. Schizophrenics are mentally ill.Brad is an utterly amoral criminal who,if there's any real justice in the universe,will meet a very ugly end...and soon.
I never refereed to Bradley Manning as a woman. I called him a 'transgender' because trans are now in the Democrats' protected class.
What will the Guano Crazies do?
One of their holy icons, homosexual male to female traitor, triple virtue, will be defending the evil villain Assange.
Ignorant writer. He was not an officer, he was enlisted.
I would like to kick him in his “p*ssy”.
I’d like to punch him in the ovaries.
It wasn’t to embarrass that f***ing b***h, Hillary Clinton. It’s readily apparent that she CAN’T be embarrassed.
It was to let the world know what she had been doing under the cover of the State Department, and spared US the embarrassment of electing a thoroughly corrupt liar and lawbreaker to be our president.
Mission accomplished. Thank you, Wikipedia....
I directed my comments to the author and not you. Sorry about the misunderstanding.
Manning is a traitor just like Bergdal. Firing squad material.
This might help get teh job done...
grep -rl matchstring somedir/ | xargs sed -i ‘s/she/it/g’
“”served seven years in prison””
AND convicted in 2013...Are we in 2020 already? WOW - I know time goes fast when we’re old but THAT fast? Is she/he/it out of prison?
Manning was not a “intelligence officer”. He was just a Speedie-Four fairy.
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