“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,” Manning wrote in a statement to NBC’s Today […]
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Captive year
Manning, 23, spent his childhood in Crescent, and was arrested in Iraq on May 26, 2010, after allegedly sending classified information to WikiLeaks, which distributed the information online. Among the files allegedly sent were thousands of U.S. State Department cables and a video showing an American helicopter crew gunning down journalists in Baghdad. Manning was […]
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Lunch-hour ‘Leak’
More honking and hand gesturing than normal occurred Jan. 14 during the lunch hour at the intersection of N.W. 23rd Street and Broadway, but it wasn’t because of an in-store appearance by Ronald McDonald, and the gestures were mostly peace signs. A group of about 20 people held signs, wore T-shirts and passed out fliers […]
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WikiLeaker?
The helicopter circled the dead and dying lying in the street. Moments prior, the troops in the Apache helicopter had opened fire, killing several people, some possibly armed, standing in the Baghdad suburb’s street. A lone survivor began to crawl away, but when a van pulled up to load him, the helicopter opened fire again, […]