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But I wasn’t getting anywhere. The reporter I reached didn’t understand the sensitivity of what I wanted to expose, that I could only give them the information digitally, and that I didn’t have enough time to establish a meaningful line of secure communications. They also didn’t understand end-to-end encryption—this was before Signal, an easily accessible, fully encrypted text messaging app, was commonly used by the news media—and more than that, they didn’t seem to understand the magnitude of what I was offering them. (It probably didn’t help that I was being so vague.) Despite the Department of Justice saying that there wouldn't be this issue, it became immediately an issue the second that we were in jail," she said.

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On January 26, 2017, in her first column for The Guardian since the commutation, Manning lamented that President Obama's political opponents consistently refused to compromise, resulting in "very few permanent accomplishments" during his time in office. As The Guardian summarized it, she saw Obama's legacy as "a warning against not being bold enough". [215] In response, President Donald Trump tweeted that Manning was an "ungrateful traitor" and should "never have been released". [216] Manning in a photo published a day after her release Then, as an injured man tries to crawl away, a van of Iraqis pulls up. “Good Samaritans trying to help,” writes Manning. A helicopter shoots again using shells that can pierce armour, hitting two children in the van. “Well, it’s their fault for bringing kids into a battle,” one soldier says. In an article following her recovery, entitled "Moving On", Manning reflected on her change in identity, wishing people to see her no longer as "Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, a US Army Soldier... convicted...", but as a person. She used a selfie from 2008 to accompany the article. [332] The Alexandria Adult Detention Center's healthcare practices are consistent with and in compliance with national standards. Most recently, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care reaccredited our facility after finding it to be in 100% compliance with all applicable mandatory standards," the office said in a statement.Manning's father spent weeks in late 2007 asking her to consider joining the Army. Hoping to gain a college education through the G.I. Bill, and perhaps to study for a PhD in physics, she enlisted in September that year. [67] [68] [69] She told her Army supervisor later that she had also hoped joining such a masculine environment would resolve her gender dysphoria. [70] In July, the Federal Bureau of Prisons rejected a request by the Army to transfer Manning from the USDB to a civilian facility for treatment of her gender dysphoria. Instead, the Army kept Manning in military custody and said it would begin rudimentary gender treatment, which could include allowing her to wear female undergarments and possibly receive hormone treatments. [294]

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While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011, she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013, she was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison.

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Manning told NPR she knew the federal government's opposition was futile because the precedents, regulations and doctors were on her side. In February 2015, Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of Guardian US, announced that Manning had joined The Guardian as a contributing opinion writer on war, gender, and freedom of information. [319] In 2014, The Guardian had published two op-eds by Manning: "How to make Isis fall on its own sword" (September 16) [320] and, "I am a transgender woman and the government is denying my civil rights" (December 8). [321] Manning's debut under the new arrangement, "The CIA's torturers and the leaders who approved their actions must face the law," appeared on March 9, 2015. [322]

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a b Humphreys, Adrian (October 7, 2021). "Public importance of leaked military secrets crucial to U.S. whistleblower Manning's bid to enter Canada". National Post . Retrieved October 7, 2021. And so she tries, again, to rebuild a life for herself. The speaking income hasn’t really recovered post-Covid, but she is about to embark on a multi-city book tour and relishes the prospect of meeting and debating with people. She receives hundreds of letters a year, occasionally hateful, mainly admiring. Reading her book put me in mind of Regeneration, Pat Barker’s novel of the first world war and the best encapsulation of PTSD I’ve read. I ask if she has read it and she looks bemused, eyes skimming the room, before going off on a diatribe about the US military’s “psychology of lethality”. Manning has also written this book, which reveals her as a doughty soul with the right stuff. It takes extraordinary qualities to do some of the things she recounts in this book – fighting prison transphobes, returning to mental health after several attempts to kill herself, but most of all taking on the US establishment on two fronts. Manning fought for her right to have hormone treatment while in jail at the same time as preparing her case against being convicted as a traitor. In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison for the largest leak of classified documents in history. The next day, Chelsea declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition.On August 14, Manning apologized to the court: "I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I'm sorry that they hurt the United States. I am sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions. When I made these decisions I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people. ... At the time of my decisions, I was dealing with a lot of issues." [194] [197] On September 3, 2013, Manning's lawyer filed a Petition for Commutation of Sentence to President Obama through the pardon attorney at the Department of Justice and Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh. [202] [203] The petition contended that Manning's disclosures did not cause any "real damage", and that the documents in question did not merit protection as they were not sensitive. The request included a supporting letter from Amnesty International which said that Manning's leaks had exposed violations of human rights. David Coombs's cover letter touched on Manning's role as a whistleblower, asking that Manning be granted a full pardon or that her sentence be reduced to time served. [204] [205] In February 2019, Manning received a subpoena to testify in a U.S. government case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the existence of which had been accidentally revealed in November 2018, which was proceeding under prosecutors in Virginia. [224] Manning objected to the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings and announced she would refuse to testify, [225] saying "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." [226] Manning also said she had provided all the information she had in 2013 during her court martial and that she stood by her previous answers. [227] Manning's father remarried in 2000, the same year as his divorce. His new wife, also named Susan, had a son from a previous relationship. When the son changed his surname to Manning too, Chelsea felt rejected, telling her mother, "I'm nobody now, Mom." [38]