4 ms·
The above article ignores the reason for her release: the expiration of the grand jury investigating Assange. Washington Post article here: https://wapo.st/2E1
by gatherhunterer 7y ago
The above article ignores the reason for her release: the expiration of the grand jury investigating Assange.
Washington Post article here: https://wapo.st/2E11CUW https://wapo.st/2E11CUW
- ceejayoz 7y ago> The above article ignores the reason for her release: the expiration of the grand jury investigating Assange. No, it doesn't.
- eridius 7y ago> Her release on Thursday comes after the period during which she could be held for failing to give evidence expired. > "Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today," her lawyers said in a statement.
- gatherhunterer 7y ago“The grand jury” is not descriptive of what the grand jury was investigating and declines to point out that her grand jury ended years ago.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThis was not "her" grand jury.
- Pfhreak 7y agoWe don't do that here. Cut it out with those asinine scare quotes.
- ceejayoz 7y agoMy comment has absolutely nothing to do with her gender. It's that the grand jury in question wasn't dealing with her case at all. The grand jury was tasked with Julian Assange, who isn't female, but more importantly isn't Chelsea Manning.
- eridius 7y agoWhy the scare quotes though?
- ceejayoz 7y agoBecause that was the incorrect part? Same reason I might say "that wasn't a 'short' install..."
- eridius 7y agoIn the comment you're referring to, "and declines to point out that her grand jury ended years ago", the "her" was absolutely correct because it was referring to her grand jury, not to the new one for Assange. The whole comment was irrelevant, because it doesn't matter whose grand jury it was that caused her imprisonment, but you're quibbling with the wrong thing and the only outcome of your use of scare quotes is to make it look like you're taking issue with her pronouns.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- dang 7y agoThat article seems to contain more information, so we'll switch to it from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48223178 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48223178.