Assange and Manning Under Arrest: Trump Admin Goes All Out Against Whistleblowers
by TRNN
(Pt 1/2)April 11, 2019
Shortly before Assange's arrest in London Thursday morning, we spoke to former National Lawyers Guild president Marjorie Cohn about Manning's refusal to testify against Assange and the precarious situation Assange is in.
After 28 days in solitary confinement, or what the system terms administrative segregation, Chelsea Manning was finally moved to a general population area two days ago. She is being held at Truesdale Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia. All this is according to her own Twitter handle, which is obviously being managed for her; she has a whistleblower support group called Chelsea Resists. It’s been two years since Chelsea Manning was first released after she served seven years for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chelsea Manning was jailed once more for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
Marjorie Cohn is an emerita Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Marjorie, good to have you here with us.
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