Earlier this month, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira was arrested for leaking classified documents to an online chat group. The documents contained a wide range of sensitive information, including details about U.S. intelligence operations in Ukraine. Interestingly, this is not the first time that an air guardsman has leaked classified material.
In 2010, a 20-year-old Air Guardsman named Bradley Manning released hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst for the US Army in Iraq, accessed millions of classified documents relating to the war, including videos of US airstrikes that killed civilians. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013, but while in custody, the US military funded his hormone treatment for gender transition to a female. Despite the severity of his offense and the scope of his betrayal, Obama commuted “Chelsea” Manning’s sentence and released him in 2017. Is the implication that “Chelsea” is no longer a threat to society because gender reassignment healed his criminal intent or was his debt to society paid through his personal anguish?
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