Judge orders Chelsea Manning back to jail after refusing to testify before grand jury
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge ordered Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who spent four years in prison for providing classified information to WikiLeaks, to be jailed Thursday after she refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigation related to the anti-secrecy group.
Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Manning's attorney, said she's disappointed with the judge's decision. She argued that Manning is"famously principled" and no amount of incarceration will force her to relent. More: Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt after refusing to testify in WikiLeaks grand jury investigation"The only thing that's being asked of her was to answer questions truthfully," Terwilliger told reporters, adding that Manning had been granted immunity from self-incrimination.
Speaking to reporters before her scheduled appearance before the grand jury Thursday afternoon, Manning said the subpoena was simply an attempt to put her back behind bars and relitigate her 2013 prosecution for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks. She said prosecutors are now just asking her"broad and generic" questions she had already answered.
Manning's attorneys had previously declined to say what information the government is seeking. But last year, federal prosecutors in the same federal district court inadvertently disclosed in court documents that criminal charges had been filed under seal against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The indictment against Assange was filed under seal in March 2018 and was made public last month, when Assange was arrested to face a conspiracy charge in the United States.
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