Whistleblower Chelsea Manning calls for radical transformation of society
MONTREAL — Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. soldier who became famous after she was imprisoned for passing government documents to Wikileaks, is calling for radical changes to the American military and police forces.
The time for incremental change was in the 1970s, she told journalists at Montreal’s C2 technology conference.
What is needed today, Manning explained, is to “aggressively push back” against what she called an authoritarian state.
Manning, 30, was a former Army intelligence analyst who served seven years in a U.S. prison until then-President Barack Obama commuted the sentence in 2017.