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 Marylands senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term.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 Mannings sentence to time served and she was released from a military prison in Kansas. The news of Mannings filing caught Marylands 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.
Cardins 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.
Mannings 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. Mannings first column for The Guardian said Obamas 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.
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#1: Tooconservative To: buckeroo (#0)
A convicted traitor would make a terrific senator for a shithole like Maryland.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-13 16:45:51 Reply Private Reply
#2: GrandIsland To: Tooconservative (#1)
GrandIsland posted on 2018-01-13 17:03:30 Reply Private Reply
#3: sneakypete To: Tooconservative (#1)
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!"
sneakypete posted on 2018-01-13 17:04:24 Reply Private Reply
#4: Tooconservative To: GrandIsland, sneakypete (#2)
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.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-13 17:50:31 Reply Private Reply
#5: Vicomte13 To: buckeroo (#0)
You go, girl!
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-01-13 18:00:03 Reply Private Reply
#6: buckeroo To: Vicomte13, Grandisland, Gatlin and yukon are hopefuls for the Train ride (#5)
buckeroo posted on 2018-01-13 18:30:51 Reply Private Reply
#7: Pinguinite To: buckeroo (#0)
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.
Pinguinite posted on 2018-01-13 18:55:37 Reply Private Reply
#8: A Pole To: buckeroo (#0)
A Pole posted on 2018-01-13 19:05:13 Reply Private Reply
#9: misterwhite To: buckeroo (#0)
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.
misterwhite posted on 2018-01-13 19:05:14 Reply Private Reply
#10: A Pole To: Tooconservative (#1)
A Pole posted on 2018-01-13 19:06:47 Reply Private Reply
#11: buckeroo To: Pinguinite, yukon and his ilk on LF (#7)
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.
buckeroo posted on 2018-01-13 19:08:07 Reply Private Reply
#12: A Pole To: misterwhite (#9)
Shooting journalists for fun?
A Pole posted on 2018-01-13 19:09:04 Reply Private Reply
#13: Tooconservative To: A Pole (#10)
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.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-13 19:10:17 Reply Private Reply
#14: A Pole To: Tooconservative (#13)
Sex "change"?
A Pole posted on 2018-01-13 20:09:47 Reply Private Reply
#15: GrandIsland To: A Pole (#14)
Try treason, pecker puffer.
Go play with Meguro.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-01-13 20:11:19 Reply Private Reply
#16: Tooconservative To: A Pole (#14)
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-13 21:28:14 Reply Private Reply
#17: Pinguinite To: Tooconservative (#13)
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.
Pinguinite posted on 2018-01-13 21:44:46 Reply Private Reply
#18: A Pole To: Pinguinite (#17)
What kind of people does not want to understand this?
A Pole posted on 2018-01-14 02:05:24 Reply Private Reply
#19: Hondo68 To: A Pole (#18)
The morally bankrupt Bush/Kerry neocons.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-01-14 02:37:13 Reply Private Reply
#20: IbJensen To: buckeroo (#0)
IbJensen posted on 2018-01-14 08:28:03 Reply Private Reply
#21: Vicomte13 To: misterwhite (#9)
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.
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-01-14 11:42:03 Reply Private Reply
#22: Vicomte13 To: buckeroo (#6)
Could you restate that in English, please?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-01-14 11:43:36 Reply Private Reply
#23: A Pole To: IbJensen (#20)
I think he lost his mind because of mistreatment.
A Pole posted on 2018-01-14 12:40:11 Reply Private Reply
#24: GrandIsland To: A Pole (#23)
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.
GrandIsland posted on 2018-01-14 13:29:22 Reply Private Reply
#25: A Pole To: GrandIsland (#24)
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."
A Pole posted on 2018-01-14 13:40:35 Reply Private Reply
#26: Hondo68 To: A Pole, Vicomte13, GrandIsland, Pinguinite, buckeroo, sneakypete, Tooconservative (#25)
Too much of a SJW kOoK!
Hondo68 posted on 2018-01-14 21:47:48 Reply Private Reply
#27: sneakypete To: A Pole (#25)
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?
sneakypete posted on 2018-01-15 10:53:43 Reply Private Reply
#28: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#26)
Not that any of this will be seen as anything but a plus by the typical Dim voter.
sneakypete posted on 2018-01-15 10:56:49 Reply Private Reply
#29: A Pole To: sneakypete (#27)
Since when unconvicted (or convicted) person should be tortured?
You might be next, BTW. And it will serve you right.
A Pole posted on 2018-01-15 17:45:41 Reply Private Reply
#30: sneakypete To: A Pole (#29)
When they commit treason. They should be killed where found if it is impossible to seize them for interrogation.
sneakypete posted on 2018-01-15 22:36:21 Reply Private Reply
#31: A Pole To: sneakypete (#30)
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?
A Pole posted on 2018-01-16 03:41:11 Reply Private Reply