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Title: Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca ... ry.html?utm_term=.11d6d542a7ab
Published: Jan 13, 2018
Author: staff
Post Date: 2018-01-13 16:25:46 by buckeroo
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Views: 2131
Comments: 31
Manning, 30, who is formerly known as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Last year, then President Obama commuted Manning’s sentence to time served and she was released from a military prison in Kansas. The news of Manning’s filing caught Maryland’s political class by surprise on Saturday afternoon. Cardin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has an extensive fundraising base within Maryland and is not considered particularly vulnerable to a challenge from within the state. However, an outside candidate with national name recognition, such as Manning, could tap a network of donors interested in elevating a progressive agenda. Cardin’s spokeswoman did not return two messages seeking comment. Manning moved to Maryland after her release and friends and family raised more than $175,000 to support her through an online campaign. Since then, she has written for The Guardian and Medium on issues of transparency, free speech and civil liberties, according to her web site. Manning’s statement of candidacy was filed with the Federal Elections Commission on Thursday. She is running as a Democrat and refers to Maryland as her “home state” on her web site. Manning’s first column for The Guardian said Obama’s election in 2008 was a political awakening for her. Manning wrote Obama left behind “hints of a progressive legacy,” but very few permanent accomplisments. “This vulnerable legacy should remind us that what we really need is a strong and unapologetic progressive to lead us,” Manning wrote. “What we need as well is a relentless grassroots movement to hold that leadership accountable.” Manning enlisted in the military in 2007 and was deployed to Iraq two years later as an intelligence analyst, according to her web site. In 2010, Manning was arrested after she provided a trove of nearly 75,000 documents to Wikileaks that included documents about the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, State Department cables, and information about prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Three years later, Manning was convicted of multiple counts, including violating the Espionage Act, and received a lengthy sentence. While serving time at Ft. Leavenworth, Manning made the transition from male to female. Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings. Manning, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, would be challenging Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms in the Senate and is up for re-election in November. Cardin is Maryland’s senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term.
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#1. To: buckeroo (#0)
Nice. A convicted traitor would make a terrific senator for a shithole like Maryland.
There isn't enough silly faggots to make him viable.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
He/she/it would be a perfect match. I can hear the campaign promise of "It's a proven fact that I can run away with it,vote for me!" In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Don't bet on it. In Connecticut the former mayor of Bridgeport, the state's largest town, served 7 years in prison for bribery on city contracts. They just re-elected that shitbird in 2015. Now he's running for governor of CT. Nice. And now we have this shitbird Manning. He's actually a mentally ill person and he was long before he became obsessed with mutilating himself sexually. He was mentally unfit for any position in the military, even more so for a posting overseas or handling sensitive information. Maybe this is the new Dem strategy: run shitbird corrupt traitors and convicts for public office. Bonus points if they can't decide whether they're a boy or girl.
You go, girl!
You have to defer to the resident homosexuals; they are disgusting the monster running for Senate.
I'm sure all those high tech security clearanced gov employees that work in DC and live in MD will be chomping at the bit for their chance to vote for Manning. On the flip side, I won't forget any time soon the videos that Manning released of the massacre in Iraq, something none of us would have seen or known about otherwise.
Good for him
An individual who has already been convicted of passing sensitive government documents thinks they should be elected to the Senate? Then what -- get a position on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Yet we're told it is Trump who is unfit for office.
What was his treason exactly?
I would NEVER consider this monster as government material to be accepted even in the lowest form of life. It is an atrocity of life.
What were this "sensitive" informations? Shooting journalists for fun?
If you're still unaware of his crimes, look it up for yourself. Even the wiki page is pretty detailed. He should have been executed IMO. BTW, if he did get elected, there's no way the Senate would seat him. They don't have to accept anyone if they really don't want to. Roy Moore might not have gotten seated if he'd won and there's no way Manning would. The Stain and Tom Cotton and others would see to it.
Sex "change"?
Try treason, pecker puffer. Go play with Meguro. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
If you're so dumb or so lazy that you still don't understand Manning's crimes, don't expect me to waste keystrokes on you.
Not unlike the people depicted in the video he released, perhaps. When one commits a crime by reporting to the world crimes committed by governments, the debate becomes one of legality vs morality.
What kind of people does not want to understand this?
The morally bankrupt Bush/Kerry neocons. Is it strange that Manning picked Chelsea for his/her/its first name.
Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
No. He can run, but there is no state in the Union that will elect him. People are not THAT crazy anywhere. Even San Francisco wouldn't elect him.
Could you restate that in English, please?
I think he lost his mind because of mistreatment.
You stretch to the ends of the earth, to find reasons to feel sorry for or make excuses for this freak of nature sick twisted TRAITOR. That's a liberal trait. Snowflake. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
You stretch to the ends of the earth, to find reasons to feel sorry for or make excuses for this freak of nature I am sure you will be titillated: The Guardian, 3/15/2011 "Mr Manning is accused of giving Wikileaks the video of a helicopter killing civilians in Baghdad, the logs documenting disasters of war in Afghanistan, and the 250,000 diplomatic cables which have shed such a dramatic light on world affairs. As a result, Mr Manning is made to stand naked outside his cell this morning, and apparently on all future mornings. This is the culmination of a punitive regime which has gone on for 10 months under which, although untried and unconvicted, he is not allowed to sleep or exercise in his cell during the day, is denied any personal possessions and is barred from conversing with the guards. Every five minutes he is required to answer that he is fit and, if he turns his face away while asleep, he is immediately forcibly woken up. In an Orwellian trick, this is dubbed "prevention of injury" for his own protection. When Manning finally protested, sarcastically, that he could no doubt injure himself with the boxer shorts which are all that he is left with at night, the boxer shorts, too, were taken away. This regime of near-torture is perhaps designed to break him, in the hope he will incriminate WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange and other associates on some conspiracy charge."
Too much of a SJW kOoK! You do understand that he was in prison and facing treason charges,right? What did you expect,chartered trips to Hollywood to party with the rich left? Every five minutes he is required to answer that he is fit and, if he turns his face away while asleep, he is immediately forcibly woken up. In an Orwellian trick, this is dubbed "prevention of injury" for his own protection. When Manning finally protested, sarcastically, that he could no doubt injure himself with the boxer shorts which are all that he is left with at night, the boxer shorts, too, were taken away. This regime of near-torture is perhaps designed to break him, in the hope he will incriminate WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange and other associates on some conspiracy charge." How about I promise to feel sorry for him/her/multiple-choice in my next lifetime? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
ROFLMAO! HEY! If you can't trust a traitor that doesn't even understand their gender,who CAN you trust,right? Not that any of this will be seen as anything but a plus by the typical Dim voter. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Since when unconvicted (or convicted) person should be tortured? You might be next, BTW. And it will serve you right.
When they commit treason. They should be killed where found if it is impossible to seize them for interrogation. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
When they commit treason. 1. You mean when they get ACCUSED of treason? 2. Is revealing that journalists are shot for fun a treason? Was revealing what goes on at Abu Ghraib a treason? 3. Revealing information to the enemy is treason. Who is the enemy in this case - _general public_ is the enemy? Enemy of whom?
#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)
#3. To: Tooconservative (#1)
A convicted traitor would make a terrific senator for a shithole like Maryland.
#4. To: GrandIsland, sneakypete (#2)
There isn't enough silly faggots to make him viable.
#5. To: buckeroo (#0)
Chelsea Manning files...
#6. To: Vicomte13, Grandisland, Gatlin and yukon are hopefuls for the Train ride (#5)
#7. To: buckeroo (#0)
#8. To: buckeroo (#0)
#9. To: buckeroo (#0)
Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland,
#10. To: Tooconservative (#1)
#11. To: Pinguinite, yukon and his ilk on LF (#7)
On the flip side, I won't forget any time soon the videos that Manning released of the massacre in Iraq, something none of us would have seen or known about otherwise.
#12. To: misterwhite (#9)
(Edited)
#13. To: A Pole (#10)
(Edited)
What was his treason exactly?
#14. To: Tooconservative (#13)
If you're still unaware of his crimes, look it up for yourself.
#15. To: A Pole (#14)
Sex "change"?
#16. To: A Pole (#14)
#17. To: Tooconservative (#13)
He should have been executed IMO.
#18. To: Pinguinite (#17)
(Edited)
When one commits a crime by reporting to the world crimes committed by governments, the debate becomes one of legality vs morality.
#19. To: A Pole (#18)
What kind of people does not want to understand this?
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#20. To: buckeroo (#0)
#21. To: misterwhite (#9)
An individual who has already been convicted of passing sensitive government documents thinks they should be elected to the Senate?
#22. To: buckeroo (#6)
You have to defer to the resident homosexuals; they are disgusting the monster running for Senate.
#23. To: IbJensen (#20)
Is it strange that Manning picked Chelsea for his/her/its first name.
#24. To: A Pole (#23)
(Edited)
I think he lost his mind because of mistreatment.
#25. To: GrandIsland (#24)
"I think he lost his mind because of mistreatment."
#26. To: A Pole, Vicomte13, GrandIsland, Pinguinite, buckeroo, sneakypete, Tooconservative (#25)
DACA Shithole Dreamers - Make America Great Again?
#27. To: A Pole (#25)
Mr Manning is accused of giving Wikileaks the video of a helicopter killing civilians in Baghdad, the logs documenting disasters of war in Afghanistan, and the 250,000 diplomatic cables which have shed such a dramatic light on world affairs. As a result, Mr Manning is made to stand naked outside his cell this morning, and apparently on all future mornings. This is the culmination of a punitive regime which has gone on for 10 months under which, although untried and unconvicted, he is not allowed to sleep or exercise in his cell during the day, is denied any personal possessions and is barred from conversing with the guards.
#28. To: hondo68 (#26)
#29. To: sneakypete (#27)
(Edited)
You do understand that he was in prison and facing treason charges,right? What did you expect,chartered trips to Hollywood to party with the rich left?
#30. To: A Pole (#29)
Since when unconvicted (or convicted) person should be tortured?
#31. To: sneakypete (#30)
"Since when unconvicted (or convicted) person should be tortured?"
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