Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private who passed a trove of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, walked out of the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Wednesday morning after serving an abbreviated sentence in connection with one of the most notorious leaks of classified documents in U.S. history.
Manning’s 35-year sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama, who concluded that seven years in federal custody was enough for her crimes. She now heads to Maryland, according to supporters who set up an online fundraising site that collected more than $150,000 for housing and other essentials as she re-enters society.
Early Wednesday, just hours after Louisiana’s Republican-dominated House advanced a billprohibiting the removal of virtually any plaque, monument, memorial or statue connected to a war or military service before a referendum, work crews in New Orleans peeled a 102-year-old mounted statue of Confederate Gen. P.T.G. Beauregard from his stone pedestal at the entrance to New Orleans City Park.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) collapsed while running a race in Washington on Wednesday morning, but later said he was “doing well.” [...]
At about 8:50 a.m., the Associated Press reported that Tillis first appeared unconscious, but was breathing when taken from the race. While near the finish line, he was taken away by a private ambulance to a hospital.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: No fridge in history has ever treated me worse! The “i-word” is back. Greg Dworkin documents the breaking of the dam. Armando relates tales from CAP’s Ideas Conference. Joan McCarter reminds us what’s up on the Hill & how they’re taking Trump news.
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