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Igel

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12. So how do you feel

Reply to StevieM (Reply #9)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 08:23 PM

Mar 2019

about other closed door meetings held before a grand jury?

Any ideas that there might be some sort of abuse going on there?

If secrecy is bad in one, it's bad in all. If it's okay in one, then it's probably ok in all.

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Chelsea Manning faces contempt hearing after refusing to testify before grand jury [View all] brooklynite Mar 2019 OP

Looks like Manning wants to go back to jail. comradebillyboy Mar 2019 #1

Three Hots and a Cot... dlk Mar 2019 #2

I see her as a very sad figure, apparently unable to see who exactly it was who betrayed her ... Hekate Mar 2019 #3

I tend to agree. susanna Mar 2019 #14

Yep, anything to protect her boys Trump and Assange Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #4

Not a good move... BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #5

Remember when she was photographed grinning and hobnobbing at an alt-right pro-Trump meeting 11cents Mar 2019 #6

It wasn't even "alt-right", it was more like "neo-nazi lite" Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #10

Ouch. I did not know any of that. I just remember the once-intense fan-base... Hekate Mar 2019 #16

"it was issued at the request of a federal prosecutor...in an unrelated case that named Assange" BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #7

Grand jury testimony is not "optional"....do the crime, be prepared to do the time. beachbum bob Mar 2019 #8

The closed-door proceedings definitely make those testifying susceptible to abuse. StevieM Mar 2019 #9

So how do you feel Igel Mar 2019 #12

This might answer your questions. GemDigger Mar 2019 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2019 #15

She seems to make really awful choices. Oneironaut Mar 2019 #11