Ocasio-Cortez: Chelsea Manning Is ‘Being Tortured for Whistleblowing’
Posted By Cameron Cawthorne On April 2, 2019 @ 7:27 pm In Issues | No Comments
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday came to the defense of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents, saying that she is being "tortured for whistleblowing."
An Alexandria federal judge jailed Manning three weeks ago for not cooperating with a grand jury investigation of WikiLeaks, the website with which she shared classified information in 2010. With public support from Ocasio-Cortez, Manning is now requesting that she be released from jail and not be required to testify.
Public Citizen, a progressive consumer advocacy group, praised Ocasio-Cortez's recent comments supporting government whistleblowers on Twitter, quoting her as saying, "We have a unique responsibility to protect those who have the courage to come out and say when something is wrong."
https://freebeacon.com/issues/ocasio-cortez-chelsea-manning-being-tortured-whistleblowing/
