Manning leaves U.S. prison seven years after giving secrets to WikiLeaks

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/manning-leaves-u-prison-seven-years-giving-secrets-121631673.html

 

 

 

Chelsea Manning walked out of a U.S. military prison on Wednesday, seven years after being arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history.

Manning, 29, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at about 2 a.m., according to a brief statement released by the U.S. Army.

The former military intelligence analyst, then known as Private First Class Bradley Manning, was convicted of providing more than 700,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to WikiLeaks, an international organization that publishes such information from anonymous sources.

Manning said in 2014 that she chose to disclose the classified information to expose truths about the civil war in Iraq "out of a love for my country."

Before he left office, president Barack Obama commuted the final 28 years of Manning's 35-year sentence. The decision angered national security experts who say Manning put U.S. lives at risk, but it won praise from transgender advocates who have embraced her transition to a female gender identity.

 

 

 

Disgraceful.

 

Obama is a disgrace for this.

[TimmySmith 2,783]

I really wonder why Obama commuted the sentence, I really do.

[bandrus1 413]

Just passing information on to have more informed voters

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

While disgraceful, at least he did prison time as opposed to Hillary/Huma.

[Djgb13 2,339]

In no way was what he did acceptable. If he's a civilian it may have been different but in the military he/she royally focked up. This is one of the reasons why I along with a lot of the other military people hated Obama. Could not speak out on it but even the black folks in there were tired of his pansy ass

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

Should have let it do the full time. The whole transgender things just makes it even weirder. Obama blew it on this one.

[Sho Nuff 720]

Transgender thing irrelevant...should have served the full sentence.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,998]

Transgender thing irrelevant...should have served the full sentence.

It wasn't irrelevant. It's why it was let out early. Man you are thick headed.

[iam90sbaby 2,727]

It wasn't irrelevant. It's why it was let out early. Man you are thick headed.

He is shorter than 6'9 it's all good brother.

[wiffleball 4,797]

This pisses me off.

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Yay or Nay?