Chelsea Manning shares first picture of herself since release

[DonViejo]

REUTERS
18 MAY 2017 AT 17:12 ET


Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier responsible for a massive leak of classified material, shared a photo of herself for the first time since she was released from prison.

The portrait, which Manning shared on her Twitter and Instagram accounts @xychelsea87, shows the 29-year old in a short-cropped hair wearing red lipstick and a dark deep-V-neck sweater. She included the caption: “Okay, so here I am everyone!! #HelloWorld”

Manning was released from a U.S. military prison on Wednesday, seven years after being arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history.

Manning was convicted by court-martial in 2013 of espionage and other offenses for furnishing more than 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to WikiLeaks, an international organization that publishes such information from anonymous sources, while she was an intelligence analyst in Iraq.

Many on social media congratulated Manning’s newfound freedom, with her post receiving 33,000 likes and 7,600 retweets on Thursday.

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[secondwind]

1. Very nice photo. I wish her well

[mcar]

2. Cute haircut

[Egnever]

3. Good for her

I hope she can live a satisfying life and put her past behind her.

[Siwsan]

4. Beautiful. She looks a little bit like the actress Kirsten Dunst.

That is a lovely photo.

[eShirl]

15. and a little bit like a young Mariette Hartley

[Skittles]

5. glad she is out

kudos to Obama

wishing Ms. Manning the best

[nikibatts]

6. Nice.

[Blue_Tires]

7. No appreciation for Obama springing her early?

Not even a "thank you"?

[demmiblue]

8. .

[Blue_Tires]

9. Just askin'

What? It's a legit question...

[femmedem]

10. She was quoted as thanking Obama in many news stories shortly after he commuted her sentence. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

14. Fair enough....

Must have just missed it, I guess...

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Obama's pardons were one of the many great things about his presidency.

Another reason why it's vitally important that the people deciding the direction of our party be firmly against the drug war and supportive of things like cannabis legalization, unlike our prior DNC chair who voted repeatedly to send medical marijuana users to Federal prison.

[Voltaire2]

12. I was curious how this would get a negative spin.

[Blue_Tires]

13. Expand your curiosity....

[Tanuki]

16. This article mentions Manning expressing thanks via a tweet relayed by a friend.

It also says that Julian Assange reiterated a promise to come to the US voluntarily if Manning sentence was commuted.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38667123

"Chelsea Manning, whose sentence was commuted by the outgoing president, thanked him "for giving me a chance".
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange weighed in on Thursday, insisting that he would stand by his offer to be offer to be extradited to the US as long as his rights were protected.
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"I stand by everything I said including the offer to go to the United States if Chelsea Manning's sentence was commuted," he said in a live online audio news conference on Thursday. It's not going to be commuted (until) May. We can have many discussions to that point," he added."..... (more)