By Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press
NEW YORK - She may have been disinvited by Harvard and turned
away from Canada, but Chelsea Manning earned applause, laughter and even
some tears of empathy on Sunday from a friendly crowd at the annual New
Yorker Festival.
Manning, who was released in May after seven years in military
prison, was by turns impassioned, defensive, humorous and occasionally
tearful in a panel discussion with New Yorker writer Larissa
MacFarquhar.
She became emotional when asked what she thought the best result
had been from her leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified
documents to WikiLeaks. “Look, I haven’t had time to deal with these
questions,” she said. “All I’ve been doing is fighting for my life for
the last seven years.”
The 29-year-old transgender woman was known as Bradley Manning
when she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison. In his last
days in office, President Barack Obama commuted the rest of her
sentence.
Manning has made only a few appearances since her release. Last
month, Harvard University reversed a decision to name her a visiting
fellow after CIA director Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned appearance over
the designation, calling Manning an “American traitor.”
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Source: The News-Herald NATION-WORLD (via The Empire Report)
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