Chelsea Manning May End up Back in Jail

Chelsea Manning may end up back in jail after the transgender activist refused to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena.

Law & Crime reports that it’s unclear what issue the federal grand jury has been convened over, but it appears that prosecutors wanted Manning to testify regarding Julian Assange and Wikileaks. A U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia appeared to confirm that the government is pursuing an as-yet-unknown set of potential criminal charges against the Wikileaks founder, who is still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“The government slapped Manning with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in the EDVA, Manning moved to quash the subpoena. A federal judge denied that attempted quashing on Tuesday,” Law & Crime reported earlier this week.

Manning, of course, has a clear connection to Assange, having offered Wikileaks a trove of classified documents, transcripts, and videos stolen from military intelligence agencies in the Middle East during the Iraq War. Manning downloaded the classified material, ostensibly in protest of the military’s ban on LGBT individuals serving openly, and passed the material to Assange, who posted it on Wikileaks. . .

Manning appears to have no intention of appearing or testifying in front of the federal grand jury, whether he is able to successfully quash the subpoena or not. On Thursday, Manning told CNN that prosecutors did not specify why the were seeking testimony. (Read more from “Chelsea Manning May End up Back in Jail” HERE)

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