Obama Pardons Gay Man Discharged From Military
With a new president on the horizon, President Barack Obama has put his last week in office to important use. He's ordered the release of 1,400 federal inmates serving under minimum-sentencing laws.
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Arrogant Obama flouts the law again
The Pentagon, they charged, secretly spent money to identify potential sites where prisoners now being held at Guantanamo Bay could be imprisoned on American soil. One of the sites studied was Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Chelsea Manning on Hunger Strike Citing Lack of Medical Treatment
Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike Friday at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Manning is seeking written assurances from the Army that she will receive the medical treatments for her gender dysphoria beyond the hormone treatment she began in early 2015.
Kansas attorney general sues to get Guantanamo Bay records
Kansas is suing the federal government to obtain documents related to planning by President Barack Obama 's administration to move prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Fort Leavenworth. Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court in Kansas against the U.S. Department of Defense .