Chelsea Manning formerly known as Bradley Manning<\/p>\n
Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, a former US Army Intelligence analyst who gave classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 was ordered back to jail on Thursday for defying a grand jury subpoena.<\/p>\n
Manning was jailed in early March for refusing to testify to a secret grand jury about WikiLeaks and was released last Thursday after spending 62 days behind bars.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A federal judge held Manning in contempt on Thursday and US Marshals took him back into custody for the second time this year for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury.<\/p>\n
Manning said he was prepared to return to jail indefinitely rather than testify during a presser on Thursday before the trial.<\/p>\n
No matter what happens today, Im not going to comply with this grand jury, Manning said Thursday.<\/p>\n
Manning received a subpoena in late January to testify before a federal grand jury in a case in the Eastern District of Virginia this is the same district that the government accidentally revealed there was a sealed indictment against Julian Assange.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton, a Reagan appointee, ordered Manning to jail after he refused to testify.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning (who later transitioned to Chelsea)stole State Department documents, many of them secret international embassy reports. Manning smuggled the security documents out on a CD labeled Lady Gaga, and handed them to WikiLeaks WikiLeaks subsequently took the sensitive cables and made them public.<\/p>\n
In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving classified materials to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n
In April 2014 a Kansas judge allowed Bradley Manning to change his name to Chelsea.<\/p>\n
In January of 2017, Obama commuted Mannings sentence from 35 years to 7 years Manning was released from prison in May of 2017.<\/p>\n
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