“I think that ultimately what they really want is they want to go after journalists,' the former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower said of the Trump administration
Former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Chelsea Manning warned Sunday that the Trump administration “clearly wants to go after journalists,” and predicted that the Justice Department would prosecute reporters covering national security and other “disruptive” topics.
“I think that ultimately what they really want is they want to go after journalists,” she told host Brian Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”Manning was released from behind bars last week. In March, a federal judge found her in contempt andfor refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. Manning was freed because the grand jury’s term expired.
Then serving in the Army under her birth name of Bradley Manning, she rose to prominence in 2010 after passing along hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military reports to the website known for its dumps of classified documents. She was convicted by court-martial in 2013, but former President Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence in 2017.
“This administration clearly wants to go after journalists,” Manning said Sunday. “I think that if the administration gets its way as its laid out in repeated statements — like, ‘the media is the enemy of the people,’ kind of thing — you know, then I think that we're going to see the national security journalists and a lot of disruptive, for this administration, press — we're probably going to see indictments and charges.
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