Palkot deadnamed Chelsea Manning while reporting on the arrest of the controversial founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Manning’s involvement with his charges. Manning, who earlier served seven years of a 35-year sentence for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to an indefinite time behind bars last month after refusing to testify about the document leak before a grand jury. Assange on Thursday was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he’d been living for almost seven years, and was immediately convicted of breaching bail in an old Swedish rape case. He also was held on an extradition warrant from the U.S., which has charged him with conspiring with Manning, a former military intelligence analyst, to hack a government computer.

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2019 14:34 UTC