UPDATE:
Harvard has withdrawn its visiting fellow offer to Chelsea Manning. In a statement released early AM on Friday, Kennedy School Dean Doug Elmendorf said “I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow was a mistake, for which I accept responsibility.”
Manning responded on Twitter by accusing the school of stifling “marginalized voices.”
Original Post:
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently hired Chelsea Manning as a visiting fellow. Manning served seven years for leaking classified material to Wikileaks.
Harvard’s hiring decision did not go unnoticed. Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell immediately resigned from his position at the Kennedy School. Morell sent a resignation letter to the Kennedy School’s Dean, Douglas Elmendorf. He bluntly stated that Harvard’s movie “honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information.”
