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gvv6on Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s visiting fellow invitation

> He was actually on his way to South America.

If you believe him and Russia. Weird that Russia and Hong Kong would let him board the Moscow flight with a revoked passport (and an extradition request), but not the Havana flight. You can't rule out that the stuck-at-the-airport routine was just plausible deniability that Russia wasn't actively recruiting American intelligence assets.

But, sure, if you believe him, he was trying to defect to some other country instead.

gvv6on Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s visiting fellow invitation

Like bringing it to China?

gvv6on Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s visiting fellow invitation

The day after it happened, three years before WikiLeaks published the video:

https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEED81E3E...

Doesn't seem like a cover up to me.

gvv6on Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s visiting fellow invitation

She did what she did because she was depressed that a since-repealed law forced her to live a lie or lose her job, and her friendship with Assange helped with the alienation.

She recognizes what she did was wrong, plead guilty to half the charges, and served her time.

Snowden fled to China to leak what he did and then defected to Russia. He barely acknowledges the damage he did to US intelligence, and insists he was right in doing it.