In a shock announcement Tuesday afternoon, President Obama commuted the remaining sentence of Chelsea Manning, the US soldier found guilty of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks in 2010. According to The New York Times: The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Obama Just Commuted Chelsea Manning's Sentence
Mother Jones New York Bureau, Mother Jones
Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:20pm
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