America's prestigious Harvard University has rescinded an offer to make former US Soldier and intelligence whistle-blower Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow after the CIA threw a snit.

Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo canceled a scheduled appearance at Harvard's John F. Kennedy school of government to give a speech on global security concerns.  He called Manning an "American traitor" and said Harvard's invitation to Manning was a "shameful stamp of approval".  Earlier, former deputy director of the CIA Mike Morell also resigned from his fellowship at Harvard over the invitation extended to Manning, calling it "wholly inappropriate".

Manning had been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking 700,000 military and state department documents to WikiLeaks. Manning entered prison under the birth name Bradley and began transitioning to female after sentencing.  Last year, then-President Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence and she got out in May of this year.

Manning's data dump contained details that US military, intelligence, and diplomatic communities considered damaging and embarrassing.  These included: A US military helicopter attack on a group of civilians, killing twelve people including two Reuters journalists; American troops carrying out summary executions of at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including and infant an a 70-year old woman; and corruption throughout the authoritarian governments of the Arab world, disgust over which would eventually lead to the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.

Although some officials have claimed that Manning put US security at directly at risk, not one shred of evidence has been produced to back-up this claim.