Wiki-Leaker Chelsea Manning Attempts Suicide at Ft.Leavenworth (Serving 35 Yrs)
Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning hospitalized after suspected suicide attempt, reports say
Chelsea Manning (Credit: AP/U.S. Army)
Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after a suspected suicide attempt, according to several reports.
CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz tweeted the news on Tuesday morning.
U.S. Army spokesperson Patrick Seiber confirmed to CNN that Manning was hospitalized “during the early hours of July 5th.” An unnamed U.S. official said that this was because of a suspected suicide attempt.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio said Manning has returned from the hospital, but reports of her alleged suicide attempt are unconfirmed.
TMZ reported that Manning may have attempted to hang herself, according to a source. Prison officials said she has since been released from the hospital and is being monitored.
Manning is being held at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas.
Salon reached out to the Fort Leavenworth office. It did not comment on the case, and instead said to contact the U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Public Affairs. This office did not immediately return a request for comment.
A Fort Leavenworth spokesperson told Gawker via email, “Medical treatment of inmates at the United States Disciplinary Barracks is protected under the Health Information Protection Privacy Act (HIPPA). No information regarding their individual treatment can be released without their consent.”
Manning is serving 35 years in prison for leaking more than 700,000 classified documents to whistleblowing journalism organization WikiLeaks.
Among the leaked materials were videos that show U.S. pilots massacring more than 100 civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The video of a July 12, 2007 attack in Baghdad shows pilots in two U.S. helicopters killing more than a dozen people, including two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters and two children. When this video was released, it generated great controversy in the media.
In another attack, on May 4, 2009 in Granai, Afghanistan, the pilot of a U.S. plane massacred scores of civilians. The Afghan government said 140 civilians were killed in this incident.
This is so sad to see. A young man that has completely fallen apart at the governments hand and no one has lifted a finger to help. He should be getting psychological help and a pardon would not be out of order particularly when you match him up to others that have received pardons or are in the list right now. You have spy’s and people in government who have cheated the American people. Cheated the governemnt. This was a young man totally confused about his sexuality, who he was and his place in the government. Before he burnt He served with distinction but he came apart. He discovered in those files this was a corrupted government saying one thing to its friends and its people and doing the opposite. The same as other nations.
This young man was someone who joined to served a nation he believed in. He believed what he was told and served honorably and up to the point of being put in sensitive positions for his rank.
When he discovered things were not the way they should have been and the advice of a man like Assange (He still free, he was smart and knew what he was doing and how to stay out of the hands of those that wanted him) if anybody should be in jail it should be him for using this young man. He thought he was doing the right thing and that the American people would be so shocked when they learn all these things from the military breaking the law on water boarding to no weapons in Iraq stop looking for them! etc. They would be so incensed it would be the politicians going to jail not him. Like I said he was confused because that is not the way things work either in this country or the world. Politicians go to jail only when they are stupid or when they can no longer contribute in what they are doing.
Here he is a young man wasting away and justice is not being done even though we are better off from what we learned from him. More changes should have taken place but his contribution in my opinion was a good one. From time to time someone needs to look inside and check for cancers. The government cannot do it because it is not going to operate and cut rotten pieces within it self. The most that can happen is band aids and pills that have side effect but do not work in cleaning any malady. I do not expect truth or honesty from the government which is the same reason I don’t care about Clinton’s email in a 100% political motivated expensive investigation that was put in place to get Hillary Clinton alone. From a type of investigation like that I don’t care about anything they find and if what they found is what has been published I think those in the committee hearings, Those Congressmen should repay the government the $56-100 million dollars this investigation has cost so far. We will never know exactly the cost because this politicians are not gong to tell us.
Today Senator Ryan the speaker of the house is saying they should not share intelligence with Mrs. Clinton as they move closer to the elections because she was careless. I guess not being indicted is not enough. That most also be a crime for her but he said nothing about denying it to a man like Trump that will use anything he knows to advance his cause. You know what Trump’s cause is because he says it at least once a week. Himself! How many times has Trump lied. He won t even show his tax return and if you are a fair individual then you he hasn’t paid any or paid so little it amounts to nothing. Why else? But give him sensitive information and not to Hillary. I hear no outcry and even the media has not picked it up even though I learnt it from watching it at NBC news.
In this screw up government, Chelsea Manning has paid enough. Already 10 years or so locked up besides a suicidal depression causing havoc in that fried brain of hers. Where is the Christian understanding and love of all these bible thumpers? I love my country but do not trust the system of government as it is today. I am adult enough to also understand there is nothing else on the horizon to replace with and I don’t know how it could be fix since every part of the government wants to stay in power wether is the Supreme Court or the Executive and Congress, particularly congress. A system in which we allow justices and Congressmen to be in power indefinitely cannot bring change and that would be the first thing that should be done away with. We had the right idea with term limits but then we stopped without finishing the job.
Only the American people could change the government but this is a divided country in which usually we get divided government and crazies like Trump running and winning a nomination. Presidents like Nixon and Bush. May be not evil Presidents but men that would destroy the nation following what advisors were telling them to do. “Mr. President we believe they have weapons of mass destruction. How do you know? We are guessing but is a good educated guess. If its a good guess and also educated then it most be the truth because I believe in you and education”). That is just a parody but you play it in your mind how it went with Bush and it’s advisers any way you wish. We know the results so be fair.
Adam Gonzalez, Publisher and American
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