Commute her sentence so she can peace out to Russia and be neighbors with Snowden? Hard pass.

Is ‘considering her actions’ what she’s supposed to be doing? I thought that was ‘serving a sentence for espionage and treason.’ We don’t let criminals off because they’ve realized they’ve committed a crime.  

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, she could have been sentenced to death. The base offense level of transmitting national defense information is 37 years, 42 years for top secret materials. 35 years isn’t harsh considering these working standards.

“The thinking is six years is plenty of time considering her actions.”

Not a chance in the world. I’m liberal and I would be very against a commutation. Just because she’s trans doesn’t mean she deserves a lesser sentence. I do believe that that is the catalyst to this movement. People can’t separate the two things.

I don’t really think 35 years for intentionally revealing an enormous amount of classified data is ‘outlandishly harsh.’

Chelsea Manning attacked female Army specialist Jirleah Showman in a surprise assault. As Bradley Manning, he displayed consistent hostility against women. There are so many hundreds of thousands of women in county jails and state and federal prisons for nonviolent drug offences, shoplifting food, defending themselves…

In light of WikiLeaks’s involvement in this election cycle, I highly doubt her sentence will be commuted any time soon. Even though the information she released has nothing to do with the election (obviously, having be in prison for the last six years), Manning’s leaked documents really put WikiLeaks on the map.

William Henry Harrison’s boss move of taking office them promptly dying is looking like a pretty sweet deal compared to what we’re facing.

The ghost of James Buchanan just did a fist pump.

can we hold each other for next 4-8 years, please???

Mother...fuck...me.

On the bright side: This means Putin isn’t getting daily briefings, either.

We’re all going to die. After we’ve been handed over to Russia. Orange Hitler has no idea what he’s doing.

You’re quite right since it seemed she was set to perform before he was selected. Still,I can’t blame her for having more class than he does.

Jezebel is by no means innocent of clickbaiting, but the Pissing Contest is a noble Cyberspace Sport, not to be summoned willy-nilly nor sullied by capitalist internet data.

the greatest trick the billionaire ever pulled was convincing the hundredaire he actually cared.

You maybe can’t guarantee your kid the relatively easy life that we’ve enjoyed (up to, oh, mid-January 2017) but good people having kids teaching them what is right and necessary to do is a pretty important thing for us progressives to do. Just make sure you don’t have any Berniebros.

I am in law enforcement and the military. Many of my colleagues were public, vocal, and sometimes vicious about their disdain for President Obama. I never agreed with it (politically, and in principal), but I never criticized them for their right to express it. That was their right.