Chelsea Manning Will Remain in Army, Collect Benefits Upon Release

[DonViejo]

Source: LawNewz




by Alberto Luperon | 1:00 pm, May 15th, 2017

Chelsea Manning will stay in the U.S. Army after her release from prison Wednesday. She will even get health benefits, and access to commissaries and military exchanges. But this may change, pending the appeal for her 2013 conviction.

“Pvt. Manning is statutorily entitled to medical care while on excess leave in an active duty status, pending final appellate review,” Army spokesman Dave Foster told USA Today. He declined to talk about other terms of her release, claiming there were privacy concerns.

We reached out to Manning’s legal team for comment.

Manning, previously known as Bradley, was sentenced to 35 years in prison her leaking over 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks. Punishment included a dishonorable discharge.

Read more: http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/chelsea-manning-will-remain-in-army-collect-benefits-upon-release/

[cstanleytech]

1. I dont hold out much hope for Manning winning this and keeping the benefits but then

again stranger things have happened in life and I thought Trump would be President or that the Repugnants would stoop as low as to collude with a foreign government just to win the Whitehouse.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Please... Manning is financially set for life either way.

GMAFB

[cstanleytech]

3. You are probably right because I am sure there will be a number of speech opportunities

to earn money and some book ones though the government will probably put a hold them if it contains anything classified or that they deem is classified.

[brooklynite]

4. Does the Federal Government have a "you can't profit from your crime" law?

(the "Son of Sam" Law in NYS). She admitted guilt in the Court proceedings, so may not be able to earn from either a book or speeches about her actions.

[cstanleytech]

8. Not that I am aware of but they do have the ability to place a hold on a book from being published

via the courts plus Manning will still be obliged under law not to reveal anything that is still classified.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Movie rights, too...

Snowden cashed in on all that stuff (even to the point of giving commercial endorsements/plugs for certain encryption/security services and he doesn't have anywhere near the respectability or media appeal that he does... As long as she doesn't do something really fucking stupid like be an apologist for Putin/Trump like Snowden has.

I mean hell, Manning was given a lucrative writing job while IN prison. If she can't cash in on this racket now that she's out she needs a new agent ASAP.

[Blue_Tires]

9. I was about to say I was happy to see you after such a long time

but since you felt the need to insult me personally I'll have no further discussion with you on this topic. Since we have a history with each other, just this one time I'll give you a Mulligan and not alert on your post -- Which is more slack than anyone here has ever given me, aside from Skinner and Earl.

If you can't come at me with an iota of decorum and respect, don't come at me, period... DU isn't Twitter -- Although if you prefer a more spirited discussion on that medium, I'm not hard to find.

Cheers, m8

-Scott

[hrmjustin]

5. Well I have sympathy for Chelsea and she should get what she can legally get, but..

.., I think she should be removed from the military. I was under the impression this already happened.

She did commit a crime and she doesn't deserve to be in the army imho. But I respect others who disagree.

[cstanleytech]

11. They are arguing via the appeals process (which is Mannings right) that the verdict is invalid due

to the law under which the conviction was obtained as being to vague.
It might work but the government might then try to file new and or updated charges (they probably wont succeed though) then, not to send Manning to jail again but rather to affirm that the dishonorable discharge for the deliberate mishandling of classified information which it probably would as Manning is guilty of that.

[hrmjustin]

14. Thanks. It was a bit confusing.

[Adrahil]

18. SO, it wasn't clear?

Should I have NOT stolen 700 classified documents and given them to a foreign national? Was that wrong?

Sheesh.

Your sentence was commuted, Chealsea. Get on with your life. But as far as I am concerned you are a criminal. Maybe a traitor. Don't try and bullshit me.

[cstanleytech]

19. Hmmm, last time I checked my name wasnt Chealsea.

[Adrahil]

22. Yeah, I know... I was being sarcastic. :)

[OnlinePoker]

23. 700,000 not 700

I'm sure that's what you meant, but I just wanted to clarify the scale of her crime.

[NobodyHere]

15. When you get convicted under the UCMJ...

You get two automatic appeals, one to your branch appeal board and one to an armed forces board. Until you're denied both you're considered a soldier but under "judicial leave". So she could perhaps use the GI Bill (but not get the housing bonus that comes with it).

[cstanleytech]

20. Lay you odds that there will be alot of "Opps we lost the paperwork" or

"Sorry but you need form DD-543-21A not DD-543-21B".

[Akoto]

6. I know very little about military procedure, but ...

If Manning was dishonorably discharged in 2013, then why will she "remain" in the Army following her release? It reads as though they'd already kicked her out.

Genuinely just curious. I haven't followed the details of the case very closely.

[tammywammy]

10. The dishonorable discharge was part of her sentence and she's appealing her conviction.

Apparently she's still active in the Army until her appeals complete.

[LeeM]

13. Discharge was for after serving her sentence.

She was busted to E-1 and forfeited all pay and allowances while incarcerated at Leavenworth. One is still in the military in a military prison, after all, they just don't pay you. I had a shipmate who was prosecuted for selling aviation fuel to civilians on the sly, and he spent six months in the Mayport brig, lost all pay, and was eventually discharged.

[NobodyHere]

21. Not exactly true

You get discharged after your first two appeals are exhausted, it doesn't matter if you're in prison or not.

[NobodyHere]

16. She's a soldier until her two appeals are concluded.

Right now she's a soldier on permanent leave and without pay.

[NobodyHere]

17. Use that GI Bill while you can Manning

[The Wizard]

24. In accordance with the Geneva Accords

of which the United States is a signatory. soldiers are required to report war crimes.