Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding enemy but convicted on other charges

[Valmy]

I'm just glad Archie's not alive to see all this Manning-Snowden stuff.
Then again, Obama's inauguration would've killed him anyway. 

There are quite a few people I would have loved to have lived long enough so I could have seen their reaction to Obama's inauguration

[CountDeMoney]

I don't know man.  With the draft the chances of more revolutionary patriots like Manning and Snowden being put into sensitive positions would only increase.

Doubtful.  Neither one of them would make the cut, as the draft would produce more qualified applicants without such personality issues to choose from in a much wider pool, rather than relying on a smaller selection pool to choose from and being forced to square peg round holes with assholes like them.

55% of the American public call Snowden a whistleblower.

55% of Americans think the capital of North Dakota is South Dakota.  Big fucking deal.

[Caliga]

  @ the Archie gif

[Admiral Yi]

He claimed very early on that part of the reason that he did what he did was because of how he felt marginalized by the military. He's been claiming for quite a while that he is transgender, and that it caused problems with his career.

He's claiming now that he did it for love of his country.

[Tonitrus]

Isn't patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel?

[Neil]

Isn't patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel?

And the virtue of the vicious.

[DontSayBanana]

And the virtue of the vicious.

Damn, I'm full of nerd moments today.  That alliteration just jammed the V speech from V for Vendetta into my head.

[Razgovory]

Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
Scott Stump TODAY contributor

Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.

"I am Chelsea Manning. I am female," the Army private wrote in a statement read on TODAY Thursday. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."

Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.

http://www.today.com/news/bradley-manning-i-want-live-woman-6C10974915

It would seem this investigation is more fruitful then first anticipated.

[garbon]

Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
Scott Stump TODAY contributor

Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.

"I am Chelsea Manning. I am female," the Army private wrote in a statement read on TODAY Thursday. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."

Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.

http://www.today.com/news/bradley-manning-i-want-live-woman-6C10974915

It would seem this investigation is more fruitful then first anticipated.

[derspiess]

  Good one, Raz #12in13

[Scipio]

Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
Scott Stump TODAY contributor

Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.

"I am Chelsea Manning. I am female," the Army private wrote in a statement read on TODAY Thursday. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."

Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.

http://www.today.com/news/bradley-manning-i-want-live-woman-6C10974915

It would seem this investigation is more fruitful then first anticipated.

"I want to be called Loretta."

-Stan, Life of Brian

[Darth Wagtaros]

That's one way of getting the operation covered by the state.

[merithyn]

That's one way of getting the operation covered by the state.

And to avoid being imprisoned with a bunch of men much larger and much meaner than you.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I think some State prison systems support individuals who want hormone therapy and will put them in protective custody (I don't believe they'll incarcerate them in women's prisons but I could be wrong), however I don't believe the military prison system does any of that. I suspect this is going to end up in a lawsuit to try and force the matter.

[derspiess]

That's one way of getting the operation covered by the state.

And to avoid being imprisoned with a bunch of men much larger and much meaner than you.

I've seen a few military prisoners.  Pretty much all of them were skinny little fucks like Miss Manning.  Probably meaner, though