Re: [Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

2017-01-18 Thread wytheholt--- via Marxism 
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The clemency for Manning may hide, or incite, lethal action against Assange and 
Snowden, to say nothing of Mumia in state custody.


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> I agree Mark.  We will take it. & I give the miserable b.d a few
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Re: [Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

2017-01-17 Thread Gary MacLennan via Marxism 
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I agree Mark.  We will take it. & I give the miserable b.d a few
brownie points for it.  I think Assange and Snowden remain in great danger.

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

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We'll take it.

The next job is to prepare a serious political fight to defend Snowden and
Assange . . . and, I mean a fight like our lives and liberties depend on it
. . . because, ultimately, they might.

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[Marxism] Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

2017-01-17 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism 

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NY Times, Jan. 17 2017
Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence
By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday commuted all but four months of 
the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence 
analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and 
diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted his administration and 
brought global prominence to WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures.


The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to kill 
herself last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman 
incarcerated at the men’s military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She 
has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by 
far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak 
conviction.


At the same time that Mr. Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, a 
low-ranking enlisted soldier at the time of her leaks, he also pardoned 
Gen. James E. Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff who pleaded guilty to lying about his conversations with 
reporters to F.B.I. agents investigating a leak of classified 
information about cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program.


The two acts of clemency amounted to a remarkable final step for a 
president whose administration carried out an unprecedented criminal 
crackdown on leaks of government secrets. Depending on how they are 
counted, the Obama administration has prosecuted either nine or 10 such 
cases, more than were charged under all previous presidencies combined.


In addition, Mr. Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez 
Rivera, who was part of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that carried 
out a string of bombings in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the other 
members of that group had long since been freed. Mr. Obama also granted 
63 other pardons and 207 other commutations — mostly of drug offenders.


Under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the White House 
on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year rather 
than in 2045. A senior administration official said the 120-day delay 
was part of a standard transition period for commutations to time 
served, and was designed to allow for such steps as finding a place to 
live after her release.


The commutation also relieved the Department of Defense of the difficult 
responsibility of Ms. Manning’s incarceration as she pushes for 
treatment for her gender dysphoria, including sex reassignment surgery, 
that the military has no experience providing.


But the move was sharply criticized by several prominent Republicans, 
including the chairmen of the House and Senate armed services 
committees, Representative Mac Thornberry of Texas and Senator John 
McCain of Arizona, who called her leaks “espionage” and said they had 
put American troops and the country at risk.


Speaker Paul D. Ryan called it “outrageous.” “President Obama now leaves 
in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national 
security won’t be held accountable for their crimes,” he said in a 
statement.


But in a joint statement, Nancy Hollander and Vince Ward, two lawyers 
who have been representing Ms. Manning’s appeal of her conviction and 
sentence, and who filed the commutation application, praised the decision.


“Ms. Manning is the longest serving whistleblower in the history of the 
United States,” they said. “Her 35-year sentence for disclosing 
information that served the public interest and never caused harm to the 
United States was always excessive, and we’re delighted that justice is 
being served in the form of this commutation.”


In recent days, the White House had signaled that Mr. Obama was 
seriously considering granting Ms. Manning’s commutation application, in 
contrast to a pardon application submitted on behalf of the other 
large-scale leaker of the era, Edward J. Snowden, the former 
intelligence contractor who disclosed archives of top-secret 
surveillance files and is living as a fugitive in Russia.


Asked about the two clemency applications on Friday, the White House 
spokesman, Josh Earnest, discussed the “pretty stark difference” between 
Ms. Manning’s case for mercy and Mr. Snowden’s. While their offenses 
were similar, he said, there were “some important differences.”


“Chelsea Manning is somebody who went through the military criminal 
justice process, was exposed to due process, was found guilty, was 
sentenced for her crimes, and she acknowledged wrongdoing,” he said. 
“Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary and has sought refuge in 
a country