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Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files to run for US Senate
seat in Maryland
Published time: 14 Jan, 2018 00:07
Edited time: 14 Jan, 2018 07:51
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Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files to run for US Senate
seat in Maryland
Chelsea Manning © Bryan Bedder / AFP
Chelsea Manning, the former US Army soldier who was jailed
for passing thousands of government documents to WikiLeaks
exposing American military abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan,
has filed to run for the US Senate seat in Maryland.

Manning, who had her 35-year sentence commuted by former
President Barack Obama in May last year, declared her
intention to run with the Federal Election Commission on
January 5. She will run as a Democrat.

The 30-year-old Oklahoma native faces a tough primary battle
against incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin, the senior senator
from Maryland who has held the seat since 2007. Cardin has
an approval rate of 50 percent, according to the latest
figures cited by the Baltimore Sun, and will face Manning
and three other candidates in the upcoming primary.

Leaking US military files was 'responsibility to public'
#ChelseaManninghttps://t.co/MphAvuPFabpic.twitter.com/0GuKn7
YgEA
-- RT (@RT_com) June 9, 2017

Prominent paranoiacs interpreted Manning's announcement as
some kind of Russian plot designed to overthrow Cardin, the
senior Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee,
who has made a number of Russophobic statements in recent
times a theory swiftly slapped down by other media
personalities.

I know there are a lot of people who still think of
Manning as a whistleblower. But the agent of a foreign power
coerced this individual, leveraging their emotional
distress, into breaking their oath to the country and
disclosing classified secrets. Period.
-- Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 13, 2018

One of the media's favorite Russia-obsessed "experts"
didn't even wait an hour before depicting Chelsea Manning's
Senate candidacy as a dastardly Kremlin plot. Also, the
second tweet here is full of demonstrable, obvious
falsehoods about Manning's motives & WikiLeaks' role
pic.twitter.com/RYBgUBstAM
-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 13, 2018

Manning was arrested in 2010 after an internal US Army
investigation found she had leaked more than 700,000
sensitive documents and videos to news outlets across the
world, including WikiLeaks. She was released from military
prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas last year.

From torture to freedom: #Manning's supporters reflect
on her 7-year nightmare https://t.co/eNDnoJTvgj
-- RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2017

A report by United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture,
Juan Mendez, was scathing of the US government's treatment
of Manning while in detention. Mendez told the Guardian in
2012 that the military was at least culpable of cruel and
inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up for 23 hours
a day over an 11-month period.

As recently as January last year, Manning, who came out as
transgender the day after she was jailed, was branded an
"ungrateful traitor" in a tweet by President Donald Trump
after she criticized his predecessor Obama.

Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never
have been released from prison, is now calling President
Obama a weak leader. Terrible!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2017

Manning took aim back at the president in July after Trump
announced his plan to ban transgender people from the
military, calling the move "cowardice."

so, biggest baddest most $$ military on earth cries
about a few trans people 😩 but funds the F-35? 😑
sounds like cowardice 😎💕🌈 #WeGotThis
-- Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) July 26, 2017
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On January 14, 2018 10:16:59 AM MST, Anonymous <retroguy@retrobbs.rocksolidbbs.com> wrote:
> https://www.rt.com/usa/415841-chelsea-manning-senate-marylan
>d/
>
> Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files to run for US Senate
>seat in Maryland
>Published time: 14 Jan, 2018 00:07
>Edited time: 14 Jan, 2018 07:51
>Get short URL
>Whistleblower Chelsea Manning files to run for US Senate
>seat in Maryland
>Chelsea Manning �� Bryan Bedder / AFP
>Chelsea Manning, the former US Army soldier who was jailed
>for passing thousands of government documents to WikiLeaks
>exposing American military abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan,
>has filed to run for the US Senate seat in Maryland.
>
>Manning, who had her 35-year sentence commuted by former
>President Barack Obama in May last year, declared her
>intention to run with the Federal Election Commission on
>January 5. She will run as a Democrat.
>
>The 30-year-old Oklahoma native faces a tough primary battle
>against incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin, the senior senator
>from Maryland who has held the seat since 2007. Cardin has
>an approval rate of 50 percent, according to the latest
>figures cited by the Baltimore Sun, and will face Manning
>and three other candidates in the upcoming primary.
>
> Leaking US military files was 'responsibility to public'
>
>#ChelseaManninghttps://t.co/MphAvuPFabpic.twitter.com/0GuKn7
>YgEA
> -- RT (@RT_com) June 9, 2017
>
>Prominent paranoiacs interpreted Manning's announcement as
>some kind of Russian plot designed to overthrow Cardin, the
>senior Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee,
>who has made a number of Russophobic statements in recent
>times a theory swiftly slapped down by other media
>personalities.
>
> I know there are a lot of people who still think of
>Manning as a whistleblower. But the agent of a foreign power
>coerced this individual, leveraging their emotional
>distress, into breaking their oath to the country and
>disclosing classified secrets. Period.
> -- Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 13, 2018
>
> One of the media's favorite Russia-obsessed "experts"
>didn't even wait an hour before depicting Chelsea Manning's
>Senate candidacy as a dastardly Kremlin plot. Also, the
>second tweet here is full of demonstrable, obvious
>falsehoods about Manning's motives & WikiLeaks' role
>pic.twitter.com/RYBgUBstAM
> -- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 13, 2018
>
>Manning was arrested in 2010 after an internal US Army
>investigation found she had leaked more than 700,000
>sensitive documents and videos to news outlets across the
>world, including WikiLeaks. She was released from military
>prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas last year.
>
> From torture to freedom: #Manning's supporters reflect
>on her 7-year nightmare https://t.co/eNDnoJTvgj
> -- RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2017
>
>A report by United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture,
>Juan Mendez, was scathing of the US government's treatment
>of Manning while in detention. Mendez told the Guardian in
>2012 that the military was at least culpable of cruel and
>inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up for 23 hours
>a day over an 11-month period.
>
>As recently as January last year, Manning, who came out as
>transgender the day after she was jailed, was branded an
>"ungrateful traitor" in a tweet by President Donald Trump
>after she criticized his predecessor Obama.
>
> Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never
>have been released from prison, is now calling President
>Obama a weak leader. Terrible!
> -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2017
>
>Manning took aim back at the president in July after Trump
>announced his plan to ban transgender people from the
>military, calling the move "cowardice."
>
> so, biggest baddest most $$ military on earth cries
>about a few trans people ���� but funds the F-35?
>sounds like cowardice ������������ #WeGotThis
> -- Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) July 26, 2017
>Posted on RetroBBS II

Everything now is a Russian plot. The sad part is how many believe it.

I'm at work right now and out of coffee. Damn Russians!

--
Sent from my Rocksolid phone.

>The sad part is how many believe it.
Because it helps them to deal with their fears.
Seems like this behavior is programmed deep in the reptilian
part of the brain and can be invoked by certain
circumstances (unless you know it and reflect it, and maybe
even than to a certain extent).
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