Army rejects clemency for Chelsea Manning
Published time: April 14, 2014 17:14
Edited time: April 14, 2014 17:48
Edited time: April 14, 2014 17:48
A news release circulated by the US Army Military District of Washington early Monday confirmed that the Pentagon official who could have agreed to reduce or eliminate the sentence imposed last year on the former intelligence analyst declined to do so. The case will next automatically be sent to the Army Court of Criminals Appeals.
According to the press release, the convening authority, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, approved the findings and sentence adjudged at last summer’s court-martial, in turn rejecting requests for Manning to receive clemency.
As convening authority, Buchanan could have elected to disapprove of Army Col. Denise Lind’s decision last summer to sentence Manning to 35 years in prison after the analyst admitted to sharing a trove of classified military documents with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Lind sentenced the solder to 35 years in prison and demoted her to private first class after finding the soldier guilty of multiple counts, including espionage, theft and computer fraud.
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Chelsea Manning's 35-year prison sentence upheld by US army general
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US army general has denied clemency for Chelsea Manning and upheld the
former soldier's 35-year prison sentence for providing secret files to
WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified materials in US history,
the army said Monday.
Major General Jeffrey S Buchanan's decision to uphold the findings of Manning's 2013 court-martial will automatically send the case to the army court of criminal appeals, an Army statement said.
The soldier, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2010 when she gave the pro-transparency site WikiLeaks 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts.
The trove included a 2007 video of a US Apache helicopter firing at suspected insurgents in Iraq, killing a dozen people, including two Reuters news staffers.
Major General Jeffrey S Buchanan's decision to uphold the findings of Manning's 2013 court-martial will automatically send the case to the army court of criminal appeals, an Army statement said.
The soldier, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2010 when she gave the pro-transparency site WikiLeaks 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts.
The trove included a 2007 video of a US Apache helicopter firing at suspected insurgents in Iraq, killing a dozen people, including two Reuters news staffers.
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