Chelsea Manning asks Obama to cut sentence to time served

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     (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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