Chelsea Manning thanks Obama in first TV interview after release

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters


09 JUN 2017 AT 09:25 ET

By Gina Cherelus

Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in prison for leaking classified data, tearfully thanked former President Barack Obama for granting her clemency.

In excerpts of an interview aired on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday, Manning said she had not spoken to Obama since he commuted her sentence five months ago, but that if she could, she would tell him how grateful she was.

"I was given a chance, that's all I wanted," Manning told ABC's "Nightline" co-anchor Juju Chang, her voice choked with emotion. "That's all I asked for was a chance, that's it."

Manning, 29, was released in May from a U.S. military prison in Kansas where she had been serving time for passing secrets to the WikiLeaks website in the biggest breach of classified data in the history of the United States.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-chelseamanning-idUSKBN1901WZ

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[Maraya1969]

2. She's very pretty!

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3. Yes she is. Here's a video clip...

[LompocDem]

5. This hit me on a personal basis.

Her reaction and my mom and her 4th husband's acceptance for his daughters gender change and acceptance and their embrace of his choice to do so seems to be much less significant but still is an important event in the progressive change in the attitudes of prior generations to the LGBT community. This comes from a lifelong hetero male who is also a lifelong Democrat.

[FairWinds]

4. So Manning releases CONFIDENTIAL info . .

and gets the longest leaker sentence in US history.

The people had and have the right to know everything she
released - especially the collateral murder tapes.

Richare Armitage and Scotter Libby release TOP SECRET info
and serve not a day in jail.

Clearly, it's OK if you are a Republican

Veterans For Peace

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6. Mahalo, Don