Lawyers: Chelsea Manning attempts suicide in Va. jail

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

an hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chelsea Manning’s legal team said Wednesday that the former intelligence analyst tried to take her own life Wednesday, but was transported to a hospital where she is recovering.

Manning has been in jail since May 2019 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. She was scheduled to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday for a hearing on a motion to terminate the civil contempt sanctions stemming from that refusal.

In the motion filed last month, Manning’s lawyers argued that Manning has shown during her incarceration that she can’t be coerced into testifying before a grand jury.

Manning served seven years in a military prison for leaking a trove of documents to WikiLeaks before President Barack Obama commuted the remainder of her 35-year sentence in 2017.

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[jberryhill]

1. Remember when her suicide watch was "torture"?

Her supporters here really used to dish out the bullshit.

[LanternWaste]

2. Using her suicide merely to score an ineffectual jab seems to quite the dish as well.

But I'm quite certain we'll pretend our own dishes are righteous, noble and without steam, flies or odor.

[jberryhill]

3. I gather you weren't paying much attention at the relevant time

Her band of supporters, many of whom seem to have moved on to other pastures, used to be apoplectic over ordinary suicide watch measures taken in response to her regular bouts of personal drama.