Chelsea Manning continues to fight grand jury subpoena
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Chelsea Manning continues to fight grand jury subpoena
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge rejected an effort from Chelsea Manning to quash a subpoena demanding her testimony in an apparent investigation of Wikileaks, the former Army intelligence analyst said Tuesday.
But Manning said after the hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, that she will continue her legal efforts to avoid testifying to the grand jury.
“I’m going to be back here tomorrow” to continue fighting the subpoena, Manning said as she left the courthouse.
Tuesday’s hearing before U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton was closed to the public, and prosecutors at the hearing, including U.S. Attorney Zach Terwilliger, made no comments afterward.
In a brief statement after the hearing, Manning confirmed that the judge rejected her motion to quash the subpoena as well as efforts to open the hearing to the public.
She said she opposes the grand-jury system as a matter of principle.
“Grand juries are terrible, to say the least,” Manning said, noting the rules prohibit her lawyers from accompanying her during her testimony and other rules she said bend the process to suit prosecutors’ whims. “The idea that there is such a thing as an independent grand jury is long gone.”
Hasn't she just tried to stay out of the spotlight since getting out of prison?
The conditions of her release forbid her from duscussing pretty much anything related to her crimes or the US military.
No she ran for congress
I suppose I missed that
Well, someone remember one of my topic thread(s) about this.
Even still disagree on some ideological views.
unless I'm misreading the situation she's not at risk of prosecution with connection to this matter, so I'm not sure why she thinks she needs an attorney there if she's serving as a witness. I can understand not wanting to be present without counsel if you're at risk of facing charges... but we don't have attorneys accompany witnesses in court, because witnesses rarely need legal protection, and they're not the focus of the trial. Witnesses who may be implicated can plead the fifth. But Manning's charges in connection with WikiLeaks have all been settled at this point.
