Bradley Manning

[Juvenal]

It's a sad day for America and a great day for its enemies.

Any chance President Obama can still intervene and grant him some sort of pardon or commutation of sentence?

I guess this shows that Assange was right and not paranoid at all...

Pretty unlikely. Obama was at the helm orchestrating Manning's persecution from the beginning. Years before the kangaroo court's ruling just came down, Obama was already making a mockery of our "justice" system and declaring Manning guilty of breaking the law. It's a whole rotten system holding the U.S. Empire together.

[davearoo]

The timing of this TG declaration seems very suspicious to me. I'm not sure how, but it seems like Bradley/Chelsea might be using it to angle for some kind of preferential treatment in prison.

[Dreamer]

The timing of this TG declaration seems very suspicious to me. I'm not sure how, but it seems like Bradley/Chelsea might be using it to angle for some kind of preferential treatment in prison.

It's well documented that she's been struggling with being transgendered,
for a long time now,
well before she ever leaked the information she did.

It wouldn't make sense for her to transition now,
for the main purpose of gaining some sort of special treatment
behind bars for being transgendered
because she knows she's not going to get any.

It may not be state prison,
but transitioning being bars ain't gonna be easy,
and it's already been said to not be allowed,
gender reassignment surgery wise,
as well as hormones, etc..
where she's going.

She's endured severe mental and physical torture,
under the government's authority,
while being held for the charges against her,
and they've admitted to doing so in trail.

Her admitting to being transgendered is not doing her any favors,
by any means.