https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ression=true&tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.012711881fbc
Edit: Her campaign ad video and link to fundraising site: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ch...senate-in-maryland.16236/page-12#post-3275306
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Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland
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Edit: Her campaign ad video and link to fundraising site: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ch...senate-in-maryland.16236/page-12#post-3275306
Exactly. Hillary didn't get the Presidency in some part because of this whole classified information thing, and she wasn't even passing info to anybody (Wikileaks), just storing it in a private server that Donald Trump asked Wikileaks and Russia to try and hack into, which he hopefully goes to jail for.
I don't know her political views, but she was treated terribly by the Obama administration, and deserves to, at least, have her voice heard. I'll be interested to see what she decides to do, and how she decides to run.
Yes, seeing how whistleblowers are treated makes no sense. She deserves to be heard, she persisted in a male prison and a lot of things that are unbearable to hear.
Excellent. Go get em!
I'm gonna hazard a guess and say she's probably a progressive
Manning got a commutation of sentence for leaking classified information while in the military.
That's the opposite of being treated terribly by the administration you were serving under.
Oh yes, because the military can properly medicate and treat those.
They don't. They just toss ibuprofen at everything.
And revealed proof of the murder of defenseless citizens by military members. It's Hugh Thompson Jr all over again, who was also publically labeled a traitor for revealing and attempting to stop the My Lai Massacre. This was about more than the cables that thousands of people already had access to.
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She showed terrible judgment with the way she leaked that bulk data. On the other hand, with her experiences and the abuses she suffered in prison, she would bring a unique perspective to the field. I'll be very interested to hear her platform.
Of course she goes for another stunt rather than actually trying to accomplish something.
We don't need to be electing another traitor to DC. Rohrbacher and Trump is two too many.
If she had leaked just the pertinent information for specific incidents, this wouldn't be a problem. But she grabbed a whole lot of random information and threw it out into the wild without a care in the world. That's not whistleblowing, that's taking a shit on your country.
We don't need to be electing another traitor to DC. Rohrbacher and Trump is two too many.
If she had leaked just the pertinent information for specific incidents, this wouldn't be a problem. But she grabbed a whole lot of random information and threw it out into the wild without a care in the world. That's not whistleblowing, that's taking a shit on your country.
hell no, she broke the law and like many said, showed terrible judgment.
What a stain on a Democratic party would it be to run a convicted leaker to the Senate.
What a stain on a Democratic party would it be to run a convicted leaker to the Senate.
her reckless actions are the opposite of being a patriot
She more than served for her crimes.
Wait, you think Manning was involved with how Wikileaks distributed the leaked information?
No thanks, you didn't deserve what you went through in jail, but you still were carless with the documents you leaked to a psychopath.
Yep. She is no patriot just as Snowden isn't a patriot. The fact that people can literally put American lives in jeopardy and be considered a patriot is beyond me. We're not talking putting Trump's life in jeopardy but rather Americans overseas whose identity weren't known and whose job depended on it. Chelsea while treated poorly in prison did break the law and did so in an incredibly irresponsible way.
Republicans don't have a monopoly on felonious and wacky candidates running for office. Where did that republican thread go...
Exactly.
Sorry this isn't a left right issue. This is a young idiot who needed to go through chain of command if something was amiss. Not leak information. You can change a lot more by simply serving your time doing the right thing and getting out honorably the running and winning to getting change to happen if you feel it needs to.
Providing a psychopath with top secret information? I don't know.
Manning was involved with the decision to hand a massive pile of random information over to a third party without any care in the world. Them being effectively a Russian propaganda arm since Assange took control of the organization wasn't known at the time, but even just comparing it to how Snowden disseminated information via reputable journalists is night and day.
Yep. She can get fucked.
Wikileaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign
https://www.google.com/amp/foreignp...ernment-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/amp/
Chelsea Manning is by far the most positive person I follow on Twitter, and has done way more than any of us to fight against the abuse of power fo the United States.
Sure, she isn't the perfect whistle blower and trusting wikileaks was a huge mistake, but I honestly think we need more people like her in this fucked up world.
Sure, she isn't the perfect whistle blower and trusting wikileaks was a huge mistake, but I honestly think we need more people like her in this fucked up world.
Let's be fair here. Most people didn't know that Wikileaks had this agenda until long after she leaked. I'm not excusing what she did, far from it, but if we're going to judge her, it should at least be for misdeeds she knew she was committing.
Sure, she put American lives in jeopardy but damn she is a very optimistic person! We need more people like that!
Really?
I'm sorry, but I see this as plain hyperbole.
She didn't, that her information directly endangered anybody is a myth
Yeah, you can condemn the "52 card pickup" leak strategy without using that against her.
It's not. She put people in harms way for absolutely no reason at all by leaking all sorts of unnecessary information.
Yes...when you provide a treasure trove of data to a psychopath egomaniac without trying to filter said information, information that put many lives in danger, you're a traitor.
She was a traitor for outing state protected secrets. She broke the law. Secrets which was not harming or killing Americans. No American was being suppressed by it or persecuted as a group by it.
I don't know what is the fixation of treating her law breaking cyber anarchy act as some sort of heroism to anyone but enemies of US
I don't know what is the fixation of treating her law breaking cyber anarchy act as some sort of heroism to anyone but enemies of US
How the cables were released was the issue, not the fact that she leaked them.
No matter how you imagine you would have reacted when seeing a cover up like Collateral murder, she had good intentions.
Really? You apparently haven't done the research that is as plain as day.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...security-us-no-damage-report-us-a7801101.html
The way she leaked the information was not good, and chances were she could have done damage. That criticism is rightful. But actual damage hasn't been done.
What she is also Snowden is too, imo. Do you view him as traitor, hero, patriot, American...?
Both leaked classified information in order for it to be made public outside of "proper channels", in order to expose practices that were illegal and immoral.
It would always say "no harm was done" unless something public happened. Stiff upper lip and all that. The issues with it screwing over sources that were cooperating w/ us was very very real.
Snowden sent his stuff to reputable journalists who would sift through it and hold back sensitive materials if necessary.
First, do research..show facts..don't post bullshit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...security-us-no-damage-report-us-a7801101.html
A whistleblower are needed..why? Because the US did War Crimes..War crimes, they killed innocent people and you are calling her a traitor? How fucking dense are people?
Snowden exposed how the NSA was spying on every single innocent US citizen and a new FiSA Act just came in place to spy even more on innocent people profiling you if you are a criminal without knowing and they know you better than anyone else.
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