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Chelsea Manning defends decisions, says she not a traitor
The Washington Times ^ | Sept 17, 2017 | Jennifer McDermott/AP

Posted on 09/17/2017 4:44:07 PM PDT by jazusamo

NANTUCKET, Mass. – Chelsea Manning told a crowd at a “creative thinkers” conference in Nantucket on Sunday that she’s not an “American traitor” as her critics have claimed and she did what she thought was the right thing to do.

Manning attended the annual conference for The Nantucket Project 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 attended.

This was one of Manning’s first public appearances since being released from a military prison in May. The Associated Press was the only media outlet in attendance.

“I believe I did the best I could in my circumstances to make an ethical decision,” she told the crowd when asked by the moderator 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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bradleymanning; eunuch; manning; mentaldisorder; nantucketproject; traitor; transgender
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To: hal ogen

Execution would have been fitting, and saved taxpayer plenty of money that we spent on his chopadickoffame operation.


41 posted on 09/17/2017 6:19:31 PM PDT by alstewartfan (We have no money but we stay afloat. The Jellyfishes don't scare us. Al Stewart from Red Toupee)
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To: jazusamo

Mr. Manning IS a traitor....to God and country.


42 posted on 09/17/2017 6:20:44 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jazusamo

“It” shoudl’ve been provided a blindfold and an unfiltered Camel...


43 posted on 09/17/2017 6:21:10 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: jazusamo

He can claim anything he wants but like a prostitute claiming they aren’t a prostitute the facts are opposite of the claims.


44 posted on 09/17/2017 6:23:30 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: jazusamo

I had the same clearance. I would still be sitting on at least 20 years more if I sh*t on my country, but the eunuch treasonous ex PFC freak is special.


45 posted on 09/17/2017 6:24:06 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I couldn’t agree more but I doubt he’d appreciate an unfiltered Camel, he’s a wimp.


46 posted on 09/17/2017 6:26:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: shanover

Yep, but he’s only special because of traitor 0bama who commuted his sentence.


47 posted on 09/17/2017 6:28:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

It takes about three minutes to smoke one...


48 posted on 09/17/2017 6:30:09 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yep, years ago when I smoked em I’d walk a mile for a Camel, he wouldn’t get past the first puff. :)


49 posted on 09/17/2017 6:39:05 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Of course, he is not a she. He still has the ‘Y’ chromosome. He doesn’t have the proper ‘Q’ angle at the hips. His shoulders are still too wide and his hips are too narrow. His internal plumbing is still the same, even if he has had a ‘lopitofamy’.


50 posted on 09/17/2017 7:04:57 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: jazusamo

That one doesn’t exactly have the best track record of determining what he is, and what he is not.


51 posted on 09/17/2017 7:08:11 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Pollster1

Well, he is not a “man” in the manly sense of things - he is an eunuch, a castrated male human. That is, of course, if he has had the balls to cut them off!


52 posted on 09/17/2017 7:57:37 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: jazusamo

She’s not, but her alter ego Bradley is.


53 posted on 09/17/2017 8:50:23 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Only their self-aggrandizement matters.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

He should have been shot.


54 posted on 09/17/2017 9:24:21 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Vendome

No, I simply don’t waste my life watching movies and especially do not have time to toss away grabbing screen shots or what ever that was from movie scenes to post on web sites.

Did you enjoy the Colbert Trump bash last night and please tell those of us that don’t know who any one there was how it was .
Don’t forget to renew your subscription to PEOPLE


55 posted on 09/18/2017 4:14:56 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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