Chelsea Manning defends her conduct

[DonViejo]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/17/2017 04:14 PM EDT

Chelsea Manning (center) is interviewed by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (left) on Sunday, during a forum, in Nantucket, Mass. | Steven Senne/AP Photo

NANTUCKET, Mass. — Chelsea Manning told a crowd at a "creative thinkers" conference in Nantucket that she's not a traitor as her critics have claimed and she did what she thought was the right thing to do.

Manning is attending the annual conference for The Nantucket Project on Sunday in Massachusetts. The Nantucket Project is a venture founded to bring together creative thinkers to uncover the ideas that matter most. Organizers say about 600 people are attending.

This is only Manning's second public appearance since being released from a military prison in May.

"I believe I did the best I could in my circumstances to make an ethical decision," she told the crowd when they asked if she was a traitor.

The 29-year-old Manning is a transgender woman who was known as Bradley Manning when she was convicted in 2013 of leaking a trove of classified documents. She was released from a military prison in May after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence, which was commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.

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[Baconator]

1. Manning can go to hell...

Whistleblowers release specific information related to a specific issue/crime etc... that can't come to light through other legal means.

Copying, pasting and freely distributing 750,000 sensitive and classified documents in the hopes that something is in there is not ethical.

Might believe that it wasn't wrong but that doesn't matter one bit.

GFY...

[Initech]

2. And to a guy who is one of the sketchiest human beings on earth at that.

Assange should be declared an enemy of the state. The main goal of Wikileaks was to discredit Hillary, which aided Putin and gave us that fucking asshole.

[cwydro]

6. Yeah, I'm not a fan of Manning.

I was glad they rescinded that Harvard fellowship. They should do the same with Spicer and Lewindowski.

I think she's not the brightest bulb in the lamp either.

[R B Garr]

3. Exactly, it was totally unethical. And has she thanked Obama yet?? nt

[aidbo]

4. Lol, yes

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40226330/chelsea-manning-thanks-obama-in-first-interview

Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier jailed for leaking classified information, has spoken out for the first time since her release, accepting responsibility for her crime and thanking President Barack Obama.

[R B Garr]

5. LOL, good. Glad she changed her tune.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/manning-criticizes-obama-s-legacy-of-compromise-863359043921

[redgreenandblue]

7. The specific crime is called "The Iraq war".

The war in its totality was a crime against peace and a crime against humanity. Each and every person who as much as lifted a finger in support of it or even spoke out in support of it in any shape or form shares some degree of guilt, in varying levels.

A complete document dump that damages the aggressor state of said war was definitely the ethical thing to do at the time.

Iraq war apologists can go to hell.

[Baconator]

8. Yeah... That's not how that works...

Try again...

[CherokeeFiddle]

9. I hope Chelsea runs for office

She kicks Republican ass each and every day on twitter and it is an absolute thing of beauty to watch! I've had some conversations with her on there, she is incredibly approachable and very nice.

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