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| + | == Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman == | ||
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| + | <html>FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible,[http://prosol2.jp/wiki/index.php?title=%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:Mvvbhxijsk#Buffalo_Bills_news.2C_8-17-_Vikings_coach_bemoans_blitzes.2C_gam Buffalo Bills news, 8-17- Vikings coach bemoans blitzes, gam], the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. | ||
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| + | Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to NBC s Today show, asking supporters to refer to him by his new name and the feminine pronoun. The statement was signed Chelsea E. Manning. | ||
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| + | As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the statement read. | ||
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| + | Manning s defense attorney David Coombs told Today in an interview that he is hoping officials at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth,[http://www.blocodecodigo.com.br/bc/index.php?title=Usu%C3%A1rio:Mkcwfyaann#To_Christian_Women_Under_40-_We.27re_Sorry To Christian Women Under 40- We're Sorry], Kan., will accommodate Manning s request for hormone therapy. | ||
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| + | If Fort Leavenworth does not, then I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so, Coombs said. | ||
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| + | Coombs did not respond to phone and email messages from The Associated Press on Thursday. | ||
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| + | Manning s struggle with gender identity disorder the sense of being a woman trapped in a man s body was key to the defense. | ||
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| + | Attorneys had presented evidence of Manning s struggle with gender identity, including a photo of the soldier in a blond wig and lipstick sent to a therapist. | ||
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| + | Meanwhile, the fight to free Manning has taken a new turn, with Coombs and supporters saying they will ask the Army for leniency and the White House for a pardon. | ||
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| + | Even Manning s supporters have pivoted. During the sentencing hearing Wednesday, they wore T-shirts reading, truth,[http://wiki.musica-electronica.org/index.php?title=Usuario:Muxgqsctlu#Marissa_Mayer.E2.80.99s_pose_in_Vogue_causes_backlash Marissa Mayer’s pose in Vogue causes backlash], as they had for the entire court-martial. Hours later, they had changed into shirts saying, President Obama: Pardon Bradley Manning. | ||
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| + | The time to end Brad s suffering is now, Coombs told a news conference after Manning s sentence was handed down. The time for our president to focus on protecting whistleblowers instead of punishing them is now. | ||
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| + | The sentence was the stiffest punishment ever handed out in the U.S. for leaking information to the media. With good behavior and credit for the more than three years he has been held,[http://wiki.ifts18.edu.ar/index.php/Usuario:Miqbiwvicf#Saints_Defeat_Raiders_by_Final_Score_of_28 Saints Defeat Raiders by Final Score of 28], Manning could be out in as little as seven years, Coombs said. Still, the lawyer decried the government s pursuit of Manning for what the soldier said was only an effort to expose wrongdoing and prompt debate of government policies among the American public. | ||
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| + | The sentencing fired up the long-running debate over whether Manning was a whistleblower or a traitor for giving more than 700,000 classified military and diplomatic documents, plus battlefield footage, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. By volume alone, it was the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, bigger even than the Pentagon Papers a generation ago. | ||
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| + | Manning was to return to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Coombs said, adding that he didn t know precisely when the soldier would leave Maryland. Coombs said he will file a request early next week that Obama pardon Manning or commute his sentence to time served. | ||
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| + | Coombs read from a letter Manning will send to the president that read: I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. | ||
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| + | Manning said the disclosure was done out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. | ||
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| + | The White House said the request would be considered like any other application. However, a pardon seems unlikely. Manning s case was part of an unprecedented string of prosecutions brought by the U.S. government in a crackdown on security breaches. The Obama administration has charged seven people with leaking to the media; only three people were prosecuted under all previous presidents combined. | ||
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| + | Coombs also will work in coming weeks on a separate process in which he can seek leniency from the local area commander, who under military law must review and could reduce Manning s convictions and sentence. | ||
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| + | Manning, an Army intelligence analyst from Crescent, Okla., digitally copied and released Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department cables while working in 2010 in Iraq. Manning also leaked video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that mistakenly killed at least nine people,[http://wiki.studrespublika.com/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Mrlqktgamp#Make_your_eyeliner_perfect Make your eyeliner perfect], including a Reuters photographer. | ||
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| + | Manning said the motive was exposing the U.S. military s bloodlust and generate debate over the wars and U.S. policy. The government alleged Manning was a traitor who betrayed his oath as a soldier in order to gain notoriety.</html> | ||

