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Chelsea Manning begins tweeting from prison

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Within minutes of her first tweets, Ms Manning had recruited more than 5,000 followers under the handle @xychelsea.

Ms Manning already writes occasional commentaries for The Guardian newspaper's American edition, offering her take on US foreign policy.

The former army intelligence analyst was convicted in August 2013 of espionage and other offenses after admitting to handing over more than 700,000 classified documents, including military intelligence reports and State Department cables, to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

US officials describe the document dump as the biggest leak of classified files in American history.

On Ms Manning's request, judges have ordered the military to address her in gender-neutral or feminine terms in court documents as she completes her transition to life as a woman.

After months of legal wrangling, the US Army recently approved hormone therapy for Manning's gender "reassignment," an unprecedented step for the military.

Ms Manning, who was formerly a male enlistee known as Bradley Manning, is serving out her sentence at Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas.

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Chelsea Manning Is Now on Twitter

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Heres an interesting one for your #FollowFriday.

Convicted Wikileaks leaker Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is now on Twitter.

She first tweeted around noon on Friday, and has since published a handful of tweets. According to Manning, she plans to tweet on a regular basis daily if possible. Tweeting from prison reqs a lot of effort and using a voice phone to dictate #90sproblems, she wrote.

Check out her tweets:

The Daily Dot confirmed with FitzGibbon Media that it is in fact Chelsea Manning. Shes not allowed a smartphone in jail, of course, so her tweets are coming through FitzGibbon via phone.

Chelsea Manning recently scored a couple of wins in court. Last month, a court ruled that henceforth, Chelsea Manning must be referred to in female or gender-neutral terms. A few weeks before that, Manning was granted the hormone therapy shed been requesting since she was locked up.

In August of 2013, Pvt. Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for supplying WikiLeaks with 700,000 classified documents in 2010. Manning was found guilty on charges under the Espionage Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the code of military justice but was spared the charge of aiding the enemy, the most serious of all the charges. If convicted of that crime, Manning could have faced up the 90 years behind bars.

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Chelsea Manning Starts Tweeting from Prison

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TIME U.S. Military Chelsea Manning Starts Tweeting from Prison T.J. KirkpatrickGetty Images Protesters demonstrate in support of Bradley Manning on August 21, 2013 in front of the White House in Washington, DC. It will be hard, but I dont want this Twitter feed to be a one-way street/conversation, she tweeted.

Chelsea Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence in a Kansas military prison for leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks, appears to be on Twitter.

A Twitter handle with her name sent a series of tweets beginning mid-day Friday that called for an online conversation. By Friday evening, the account had more than 18,000 followers.

Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, was sentenced to jail in 2013 for passing hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to Wikileaks. Since being jailed, the soldier has transitioned to female. In February, she was approved for hormone therapy.

She is not allowed Internet access, according to the Guardian, and in her tweets she notes the difficulties of tweeting from prison. She says she is dictating them by phone and that the Twitter handle is run by Fitzgibbon Media, a communications firm.

Manning also says that she plans to tweet daily or weekly, and activists supporting her told the Guardian that her Tweets will be her own candid thoughts and comments.

This is my new twitter account =P

Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) April 3, 2015

Tweeting from prison reqs a lot of effort and using a voice phone to dictate #90sproblems

Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) April 3, 2015

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WikiLeaks leaker Chelsea Manning joins Twitter from prison

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Despite being incarcerated for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning has joined Twitter. The solider formerly known as Bradley Manning has been approved to receive gender-reassignment hormone therapy, but is not permitted access to the internet.

To get around this restriction, supporters of Manning have set up the @xychelsea account on her behalf. Tweeting is due to start today, and Manning will dictate messages over the phone so "her own candid thoughts and comments" can be shared with Twitter users.

Manning's Twitter profile lists her location as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, and the hand-drawn profile picture shows her as she would like to appear -- with long hair. Despite permitting gender-reassignment therapy, authorities have said that Manning is not allowed to grow her hair, although this will be reconsidered in the near future once hormone therapy has been administered for a number of months.

Since Manning's conviction in 2013, there has been an online campaign running calling for the whistleblower to be freed. It is likely that the Twitter account will be used as a platform for Manning to communicate with her network of supporters.

Even before the account has been used to post any tweets, it has already managed to collect -- at time of writing -- almost 3,000 followers, a number that is certain to grow in the coming weeks and months.

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Having made just four tweets, Manning's follower count has jumped to over 8,500. Things got off to gentle start with the Twitter equivilent of Hello World:

She went on to say that "I'm hoping to stay connected w/ this account as much as poss., but would rather tweet about more meaningful things than not". The most recent tweet indicates that Manning may be open to questions, but is yet to respond to any:

We are still trying to determine who is actually in control of the Twitter account. We'll update this post if and when we have more information.

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Chelsea Manning Joints Twitter From Prison

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Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private imprisoned for exposing national security secrets, has joined Twitter with the help from a communications firm.

The company, Fitzgibbon Media, confirmed that it is handling Manning's account, @xychelsea, posting messages she dictates by phone and telling her about the responses.

Her introductory post went up Friday afternoon. She finished the day with seven more, thanking friends and supporters, expressing the effort it takes to Tweet by phone from prison, and promising "I don't want this Twitter feed to be a one-way street/conversation." By Friday evening she had more than 20,000 followers.

Manning revealed her gender identity as a transgender female while serving 35 years in the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.

The former Army intelligence analyst has said disillusionment with an American foreign policy bent on "killing and capturing people" motivated the release of the documents, including battlefield reports and diplomatic cables, to the anti-secrecy site in 2010.

A court ruled in March that the Army must stop referring to her as Bradley Manning and must use feminine or gender neutral pronouns in court filings.

Emmanuelle Saliba

First published April 3 2015, 2:37 PM

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Chelsea Manning Is Now Tweeting From Prison

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Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private imprisoned for exposing national security secrets, has joined Twitter with the help from a communications firm.

The company, Fitzgibbon Media, confirmed that it is handling Manning's account, @xychelsea, posting messages she dictates by phone and telling her about the responses.

Her introductory post went up Friday afternoon. She finished the day with seven more, thanking friends and supporters, expressing the effort it takes to Tweet by phone from prison, and promising "I don't want this Twitter feed to be a one-way street/conversation." By Friday evening she had more than 20,000 followers.

Manning revealed her gender identity as a transgender female while serving 35 years in the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.

The former Army intelligence analyst has said disillusionment with an American foreign policy bent on "killing and capturing people" motivated the release of the documents, including battlefield reports and diplomatic cables, to the anti-secrecy site in 2010.

A court ruled in March that the Army must stop referring to her as Bradley Manning and must use feminine or gender neutral pronouns in court filings.

Emmanuelle Saliba

First published April 3 2015, 2:37 PM

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After Obama’s cybersecurity order threatens Snowden fund, bitcoin donations spike

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Summary:A new executive order is said to have made it illegal to donate to Edward Snowden's fund, which didn't go down so well with one good-spirited community.

US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in June 2014. (Image via CNET)

A new executive order signed into law this week by the president has one online community up in arms, after its loose wording effectively ruled out donating to Edward Snowden and others.

In a post on Reddit's Bitcoin subreddit, members pledged to donate to the whistleblower's relief fund, despite the wording of the new executive order suggesting that doing so was illegal.

In the new executive order, signed into law on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama declared cyber-threats aimed at the US a "national emergency." The order threatens sanctions against those (including US residents) who engage in cyberattacks and espionage activities that threaten US interests at home and abroad.

The wording of the order specifically addresses any person whose "property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States."

Redditors were quick to assume (likely correctly) that this includes Edward Snowden, who for more than a year-and-a-half has lived in Russia, evading US justice.

"This is almost as bad as the Patriot Act," said the user who first posted the thread.

Snowden, a 31-year-old former US government contractor, fled the US to Hong Kong and on to Russia after leaking tens of thousands of classified documents pertaining to the National Security Agency's surveillance operations.

Within days, he outed himself, and was subsequently charged with espionage. But in a recent "ask me anything" on Reddit, Snowden regretted only one thing: "I would have come forward sooner," he said.

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Snowden documents reveal UK spying on Argentina over Falklands

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A report published by the Todo Noticias (TN) news website cited documents leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that detailed an elaborate espionage program conducted on Argentine officials between 2006 and 2011.

The surveillance was said to have been in a bid to ensure the security of the Falklands, which remain in British hands more than 30 years after Argentina briefly seized them by force.

The Argentine website, which is attached to a news television channel of the same name, quoted the documents as saying that Britain's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group had conducted a "long-term, far-reaching" surveillance program dubbed Operation Quito, which included efforts to tap into Argentine military and political leaders' communications, while at the time using the Internet to spread pro-British propaganda.

"The new, never-before-seen documents expose how (the UK's) most secret task forces used a dirty game and systematic disinformation to launch their cyber-offensive," the website reported. "The objective: to prevent Argentina from getting back the islands."

Snowden, who also previously worked as a computer systems administrator at the Central Intelligence Agency, has been living in exile in Russia since 2013, when he began leaking information to journalists about mass surveillance programs conducted by the US on its allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Argentine invasion, British task force

That Britain would be seeking intelligence on Argentine officials may not come as such a surprise, given the fact that Buenos Aires previously sought to take the islands, which lie just 300 miles (480 kilometers) off Argentina's coast, by force.

In 1982 Argentine forces invaded the Falklands. Britain sent a military task force, which wrested back control of the islands in a 74-day war that claimed the lives of more than 600 Argentine and 255 British servicemen.

The two countries had been at loggerheads over the islands before that war, and have been ever since.

Just last week, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon announced that the UK would bolster its defense of the islands, which the Argentines call the "Malvinas," sending, among other things, two Chinook helicopters and an improved surface-to-air missile system.

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