Appeals court turns down Manning appeal over contempt in WikiLeaks probe
Source: Politico
A federal appeals court has turned down former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s bid to overturn a contempt order that led to her jailing for refusing to answer questions from a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
Manning’s lawyers said a district court judge ignored her claims that she was subjected to illegal electronic surveillance following her conviction by a court martial in 2013 of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks.
However, in a brief, two-page order Monday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said it had no quibble with U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton’s decision last month to find Manning in contempt and send her to a jail in Alexandria, Virginia, after she refused to answer a series of questions in the ongoing probe of WikiLeaks.
“Upon consideration of the memorandum briefs filed on appeal and the record of proceedings in the district court, the court finds no error in the district court’s rulings and affirms its finding of civil contempt. The court also denies appellant’s motion for release on bail,” the appeals court’s order said.
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