ABC News: President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's 35-Year Sentence
President Obama granted a commutation to Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who was convicted of Espionage Act violations and other charges for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 and she will now be released in May, according to her lawyer. The documents that were leaked, about the U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, sparked a firestorm.
She was one of 209 individuals granted commutations and 64 individuals who were given pardons by Obama today.
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WNU Editor: When reports starting circulating a few weeks ago that President Obama may pardon Chelsea Manning .... I remarked that I would be surprised. This is not a pardon .... it is a commutation .... but I am still surprised. On a side note .... will Wikileaks Julian Assnage follow through with his promise to be extradited to the U.S.? .... Assange agrees to be extradited if Obama grants clemency for Manning (The Hill)
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