Chelsea Manning showed ‘moral strength’ by choosing imprisonment over collaboration with US govt – Snowden
March 14, 2020 in News by RBN Staff
source: www.rt.com
Commenting on Manning’s newly-won freedom, Snowden noted that the former Army analyst-turned-whistleblower had been “cast into a dungeon” by the United States for refusing to work with the government to criminalize the publication of classified materials.
They offered to let her out in exchange for collaboration, but she chose her principles instead.
For Snowden, Manning’s unwillingness to exchange her freedom for her beliefs was the ultimate display of “moral strength.”
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The government cast Manning into a dungeon for resisting a scheme to make publishers of news subject to the Espionage Act. They offered to let her out in exchange for collaboration, but she chose her principles instead.
That is moral strength.@xychelsea https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress/status/1238215334496276480 …
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BREAKING: Chelsea Manning ordered released from jail, where she has been held for over a year for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury. Her testimony “is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose.” https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520/gov.uscourts.vaed.412520.41.0.pdf …
Manning was released on Thursday after spending nearly a year in detention for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury probe into WikiLeaks. Her release order came shortly after her legal team disclosed that she had been hospitalized after attempting to take her own life.Although no longer locked away in a Virginia detention facility, Manning still faces more than $250,000 in fines for refusing to cooperate with the inquiry.
