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Chelsea Manning has spoken for the first time since her release from prison in May, after serving seven years for leaking secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks during the Iraq ...
Jun 9, 2017 · Manning had been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a military tribunal after she leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010 while serving as an intelligence analyst ...
Oct 19, 2022 · In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, former US Army soldier and whistleblower Chelsea Manning described her new tell-all memoir and why she chose to leak ...
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In October 2007, Manning joined the Army. According to information later provided as part of her court martial, Manning explained that “earning benefits under the GI Bill for college opportunities” was one of the motivators behind her enlistment. She performed well on the Armed Services Aptitude Battery but struggled with Basic Combat Training, at ...
Manning reported that she first learned of WikiLeaks while at Fort Huachuca and that she was regularly visiting the website while stationed in Iraq, utilizing some of the leaked information to inform her work. As part of her role as an analyst, Manning frequently utilized records of notable incidents and events termed “Significant Activities” (SIGA...
In May 2010, Manning began an online friendship with a hacker named Adrian Lamo. In their internet exchanges, Manning discussed her troubles with the military and disclosed that she was responsible for providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Lamo contacted the Department of Defense about the leak, and Manning was arres...
One day after her sentencing, Manning revealed in a statement delivered by defense counsel that she wanted to transition from male to female, and asked to be called Chelsea. During an appearance on NBC’s “Today,” Manning’s lawyer read a statementin which Manning wrote: “I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female.” “Given the way that I feel, and have felt...
Concerned about Manning’s well-being, her attorneys filed an application for clemency. The application was filed in time to be considered by President Obama before he was set to leave office. “I have no confirmation that Chelsea's request is on a short list,” Strangio, Manning’s attorney, said at the time of the filing. “But I encourage the preside...
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Jan 18, 2017 · President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Julian P. Assange, 52, the founder of WikiLeaks, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Chelsea Manning, at that time a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, to unlawfully obtain and disclose classified documents relating to the national defense. After obtaining classified national defense information from Manning, and aware of the harm that dissemination of such national defense information would ...
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Jun 25, 2024 · Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of documents leaked by former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Documents relating to the war in Afghanistan revealed how the US military ...
