Federal judge orders Manning jailed again

You can put lipstick on a . . . 

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been ordered back to jail by a U.S. District Judge, Anthony Trenga, Thursday after he refused to comply with a new grand jury subpoena in the WikiLeaks case in which he assisted WikiLeaks in obtaining over 100,000 classified military documents. This was the biggest classified document dump in American history but in spite of that, former President Obama commuted his sentence.

“Attempting to coerce me with a grand jury subpoena is not going to work. I will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury,” Manning said before entering the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va. This was his way of "Manning up."

Manning told the court he “would rather starve to death” than cooperate with the grand jury. I say give him his wish.

Manning, a man who believes himself to be a woman,  was freed earlier this month after 62 days in jail for refusing to testify with the previous grand jury. He was released from jail when the grand jury’s term ended but was served with another subpoena requiring him to appear before a new grand jury.

An indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleges he conspired with Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010. Remember, you can't have Assange without "Ass."

Manning was convicted at a court martial trial in 2013 of leaking a trove of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning's 35-year prison sentence was commuted by former failed President Barack Obama just days before the end of his presidency in January 2017.

Assange, who was living in asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London since 2012, was arrested last month and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaking his bail conditions after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden to face a rape allegation.

U.S. prosecutors are seeking to extradite Assange after he’s released from jail, but Sweden recently reopened the rape investigation, complicating those efforts.

Hopefully justice will be done and Manning will rot in prison.

The judge ruled that if Manning doesn't comply with the grand jury subpoena after 30 days he will be fined $500 a day, the official said. The fine would go up to $1000 a day if he continues to refuse to testify after 60 days, according to the official.

It is unknown whether Manning has officially had his genitals removed and reshaped to sort of resemble the genitalia of a woman. Inquiring minds don't care one way or the other.

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