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Chelsea Manning Says She'll Never Testify, Seeks Release

by Associated Press

   ALEXANDRIA, VA. --

   Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is offering a new
   legal argument in her effort to be released from a Virginia jail.

   Manning has been jailed in Alexandria for two months for refusing to
   testify to a grand jury investigating the website Wikileaks. She
   appealed her incarceration to the federal appeals court in Richmond,
   but a three-judge panel unanimously rejected her appeal last month.

   In a motion filed Monday in Alexandria, Manning argues she has proven
   she'll stick to her principles and should therefore be released.
   Federal law only allows a recalcitrant witness to be jailed on civil
   contempt if there's a chance that the incarceration will coerce the
   witness into testifying.

   Manning served seven years in a military prison for leaking a trove of
   documents to Wikileaks.