Posted on 04/23/2014 9:04:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bradley Edward Manning is no more.
A Kansas judge on Wednesday granted the former Army intelligence analyst's request to formally be known as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
"I've been working for months for this change, and waiting for years," she said in a statement applauding the order.
"It's worth noting that in both mail and in-person, I've often been asked, 'Why are you changing your name?' The answer couldn't be simpler: because it's a far better, richer, and more honest reflection of who I am and always have been -- a woman named Chelsea."
Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
She was convicted in July of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks in what has been described as the largest leak of classified material in U.S. history. Manning was found guilty of 20 of the 22 charges against her, including violations of the U.S. Espionage Act....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Kansas has federal district courts. He/she/it now resides in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Personally, I don’t give a s- if he calls himself Nummy Muffin Coco Butter so long as he rots in jail for the rest of his life. (Although a firing squad is what he deserved.)
He wants to be “Chelsea”??
Fine.
Lock him in a room with a fifth of vodka and a sharp KaBar.
Put him back in General Population after he makes his final decision.
A poorly written article, then. When I read “Kansas judge”, I think of a judge in the Kansas judiciary. It should have said “federal judge in Kansas”.
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