Ecuador: Correa attacks the media for double standards on Wikileaks
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The Army private convicted of funneling intelligence secrets to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks can legally change her name to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Mannings private struggle to identify as a woman became public after she was sentenced to 35 years in prison last August for leaking more than 700,000 government files. Manning didnt attend the minute-long name-change hearing Wednesday, but said in a statement that it is an exciting day.
Leavenworth County District Judge David King wrote that Manning is entitled to the name change, and ordered that Mannings birth certificate be amended to reflect the new name, according to the petition obtained by NBC News. The soldier's given name was Bradley Edward Manning.
Hopefully todays name change, while so meaningful to me personally, can also raise awareness of the fact that we [transgender] people exist everywhere in America today, and that we ... must jump through hurdles every day just for being who we are, Manning wrote.
Manning, 26, is currently serving time at the Army prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
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While Mannings military records must also reflect the new name, Army officials arent forced to treat Manning as a woman, which means she wouldnt have to be transferred to a womens unit at another prison.
Mannings confinement status wouldnt necessarily change, Army spokesman George Wright told The Associated Press.
Likewise, the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks is a male-only facility and prisoners there are referred to by the title inmate, Wright said in a statement.
Manning wrote that while she struggled with her gender identity, she felt compelled to legally change her name through the courts. But she said she still needs the militarys help to get proper healthcare access.
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The WikiLeaks source announced today that she is now legally recognized as 'Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.' Manning also provided an update on her current state of affairs, including whether or not she will receive health care.
An artist's rendering of Chelsea Manning as she sees herself.
Earlier today, Chelsea Manning issued a statement announcing that her name change, requested last month, has been approved by a Kansas court.
"Today is an exciting day," Manning's statement readsas published on the blog for her support network. "A judge in the state of Kansas has officially ordered my name to be changed from 'Bradley Edward Manning' to 'Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.' I've been working for months for this change, and waiting for years."
Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence on charges stemming from her leak of classified documents to the public and website WikiLeaks, announced in August of last year that she is transgender. This came after years of speculation over Manning's gender identity, considered to be somewhat of an open secret among trans activists since as early as 2011.
"It's worth noting that in both mail and in-person, I've often been asked, 'Why are you changing your name?'"Manning continues. "The answer couldn't be simpler: because it's a far better, richer, and more honest reflection of who I am and have always been a woman named Chelsea."
Manning goes on to detail many of the often tedious, basic obstacles trans individuals often face, discussing the need for trans people to be able to access healthcare, and explains the benefit of having public accommodations protections. She writes, "It's the most banal things... that in our current society keep us from having the means to live better, more productive, and safer lives."
Her statement reads with optimism for a better world, and even hope for her own future.
"Now, I am waiting on the military to assist me in accessing healthcare," Manning writes, referring to her request to begin hormone replacement therapy. "In August, I requested that the military provide me with a treatment plan consistent with the recognized professional standards of care for trans health. They quickly evaluated me and informed me that they came up with a proposed treatment plan. However, I have not yet seen their treatment plan, and in over eight months, I have not received any response as to whether the plan will be approved or disapproved, or whether it follows the guidelines of qualified health professionals."
Manning notes in her letter's closing that she prefers "Trans*" with an asterisk, which many use as an umbrella term to describe individuals who fall both inside and out of the "male/female" gender binary.
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Chelsea Manning Announces Legal Name Change in Optimistic Letter
Just another Brooklyn evening (forward 2min in)
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EDWARD SNOWDEN KAREN HUDES ALBERTO CANOSA Y EL ARMAGEDON
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Report Edward Snowden Allowed Chinese to Download Four Laptops Worth of Secret Information
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Germany: Lingerie brand, Blush, has new muse- Edward Snowden
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Her remarks on Edward Snowden give Democrats a preview of the misinformation they can expect if they make her their standard-bearer.
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Hillary Clinton's recent attack on Edward Snowden was cited by my colleague Peter Beinart as an example of her newfound ability to exude authenticity in public statements. "She said something some liberals will not likethat America needs to spy and that Snowdens motives are suspectbut which she undoubtedly believes," Beinart wrote. "It sounded authentic because her natural instincts are to see the world as a Hobbesian place and to defend Americas governing institutions against those on the right or left who would delegitimize them."
Beinart is right: There is every reason to believe Clinton authentically distrusts Snowden and his actions. So I concur with his analysis of those sentiments. But elsewhere in the same interview, Clinton spoke words that Democratic primary voters ought to take as evidence that she is a bullshitter. Mother Jones gives this account of Clinton's words:
Hillary Clinton didn't have to directly deal with Edward Snowden's leaks when she was secretary of state. Clinton had already stepped down from her post by the time the Guardian published its first revelations on the expansive scope of spying by the National Security Agency. But at an event at the University of Connecticut ... Clinton made it clear that she's no fan of the NSA leaker, insinuating that Snowden had cooperated with countries hostile to the United States and unintentionally aided terrorist organizations. "I don't understand why he couldn't have been part of the debate at home," she said.
Clinton questioned Snowden's intentions in fleeing the country before offerring his information to the public. "When he emerged and when he absconded with all that material, I was puzzled, because we have all these protections for whistleblowers," Clinton said, when the moderator asked if there had been any positive effects for security policy following the NSA leaks. "If he were concerned and wanted to be part of the American debate, he could have been."
This gets significant facts wrong. At best, Clinton is ignorant about federal whistleblower laws, and if we presume that she has the baseline knowledge needed to be competent in her former roles, she is willfully misleading her audience.
"I was puzzled," she said, "because we have all these protections for whistleblowers." The Freedom of the Press Foundation calls out her misinformation:
Contractors like Snowden lack the protections that federal employees are entitled to, and the government is free to retaliate against such people under the law. As Angela Canterbury, director of public policy at the Project on Government Oversight, has explained: There is a gaping loophole for intelligence community contractors. The riskiest whistle-blowing that you can possibly do on the government is as an intelligence contractor.
As for the idea that Snowden could've been "part of the debate" at home, rather than fleeing abroad:
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Hillary Clinton's Unreliable Statements on Whistleblowing
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The flag reads "For Putin. And that's all."
The New York Times reports that Snowden retained prominent Washington defense lawyer Plato Cato Cacheris to negotiate a potential deal with the U.S. government that could bring the 30-year-old American home.
But an agreement is unlikely since Snowden's camp wants leniency for the surveillance debate started by his leaks to journalists, while top Pentagon officials believe Snowden also took military documents. The Justice Department's position is that Snowden is not a whistleblower.
The Times notes that it's still unclear how many documents Snowden took or when he gave up access. And when one considers that the former NSA systems administrator was a "genius among geniuses," living under Kremlin protection for 10 months and counting is a very vulnerable position.
"To a foreign intelligence service, Snowden is priceless," Robert Caruso, a former assistant command security manager in the Navy and a consultant, told BI. "He can be be exploited again and again."
Caruso explained that while U.S. agencies can "change names of facilities, physically relocate the more sensitive activities, [reassign] personnel he endangered, [etc.]" to mitigate damage from leaked documents, Snowden cannot alter or unlearn the granular level of detail with which he knows NSA systems.
And the classified intel in his head is what makes him so appealing to a U.S. adversary like Russia, especially because Snowden is not a true spy.
"He does not have the training to deal with this kind of situation," Russian security services expert Andrei Soldatov previously told BI. "Every time, he found himself in some new difficult circumstances and he was forced to make some decision. And long term, it's a very successful thing [for Russia]."
So as long as Snowden doesn't reach a plea deal with Washington, the former CIA technician is stuck in a Kremlin-controlled environment.
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Germany: NSA spying "unacceptable" says SPD
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