Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury

It&#x27;s insane the level of vindicativeness that government can reach. Worse than any bully and more fanatical than any terrorist.<p>Of course the government is like this to mere peasants. If you are the wealthy elite, the government acts like a grovel servant rather than master. Expose war crimes - then you are public enemy #1. Be part of the wealthy elite who destroys the financial system and ruins the lives of millions - it&#x27;s just good ol&#x27; boys being good ol&#x27; boys.<p>And yet, everyday, we give more and more power to governments and corporations.

I didn&#x27;t realize this about US law but if you&#x27;ve already been convicted of a crime OR they give you immunity you can be forced to testify.<p>They did this in Aaron Swartz&#x27;s case and gave people immunity to force them to testify.<p>I was friends with Aaron and felt that he was mostly a hero in this situation though he was probably guilty of misdemeanor trespass.<p>It was troubling to see how upset it made my friends that they were going to be forced to testify against someone they loved or were friends with.

&quot;her lawyers reportedly asked that she be confined at home due to medical issues, but the judge said US Marshals would address her care needs.&quot;<p>That is a terrifying sentence to read after having learned about the medical care provided (or not provided...) in US prisons. It almost reads to me as if they planned on killing her.

It would probably have been better to join Snowden in Moscow ... the land of the &quot;free&quot; is applicable if you go up against the military-industrial complex and their agenda.

Unfortunately, she&#x27;s got another subpoena next week for a separate case with the same set of questions.<p>It seems like her freedom will be short-lived.

rather than refusing to testify, couldn&#x27;t you just answer with &quot;i don&#x27;t recall&quot; to every question (or variations as appropriate)?

So long as you didn&#x27;t recently talk about it and don&#x27;t ever plan on talking about it. You can go in and claim not to remember.

I’ll bet she gets picked up again in just days.

I wonder if Manning can pull the ol&#x27; Assange and hide in an embassy. It looks like the government is willing to make an example and send Manning to jail for an insanely long time, if not life. I personally would rather live my life in an embassy than in prison (not that this is a choice that I would like to have in the first place)

What&#x27;s her reason to not testify?

The above article ignores the reason for her release: the expiration of the grand jury investigating Assange.<p>Washington Post article here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wapo.st&#x2F;2E11CUW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wapo.st&#x2F;2E11CUW</a>

About time this farce of a subpeona was ended. Chelsea already testified once on the matter the subpeona was about iirc.<p>Edit: subpeona was not quashed, grand jury&#x27;s term expired.