Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is headed back to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the WikiLeaks probe. Manning served two months at William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Va. for a contempt charge regarding the same issue, but was released on Friday after the grand jury term expired. CHELSEA MANNING RELEASED FROM JAIL AFTER REFUSING TO TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURYThis time, a judge ordered Manning to the Alexandria Detention Center, where she can face up to 18 months in prison, the length of the grand jury term, unless she agrees to cooperate with the investigation sooner. Manning said she’d rather stay in jail "forever" than testify to the grand jury probing Wikileaks, describing the subpoena as “an attempt to place me back in confinement.”“There’s nothing new,” Manning said Thursday during a press conference before her court hearing in Alexandria. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017 and she was released from prison after seven years of imprisonment.

Source: Fox News May 16, 2019 20:37 UTC