(AP) – A transgender soldier serving 35 years at a Kansas
military prison for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks is asking
President Barack Obama to commute her sentence to the 6 1/2 years she has
already served.
Chelsea Manning says in her application for commutation that she’s a “far
different person” than she was in 2010, when her name was Bradley Manning and
she was struggling to fit in as a male.
A military court convicted Manning in 2013 of leaking more than 700,000 secret
military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. She has acknowledged guilt
but says she wanted to raise public awareness about the impact of war on
civilians.
She’s imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth.
Supporters argue the sentence was too harsh for something that caused little
more than military embarrassment.
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