Chelsea Manning asks Obama to cut sentence to time served

[rangerrebew]

Chelsea Manning asks Obama to cut sentence to time served

By: Bill Draper, The Associated Press, November 14, 2016 (Photo Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A transgender soldier who is more than six years into a 35-year sentence for leaking classified government and military documents to the WikiLeaks website is asking President Barack Obama to commute her sentence to time served.

In a commutation application released by her attorneys, Chelsea Manning said there was no historical precedent for such an extreme sentence for the leak of secret documents.

Manning was arrested in 2010 and convicted in 2013 in military court of six Espionage Act violations and 14 other offenses for leaking more than 700,000 secret military and State Department documents, plus some battlefield video to WikiLeaks. At that point she was known as Bradley Manning.

https://www.armytimes.com/articles/chelsea-manning-asks-obama-to-cut-sentence-to-time-served

[mountaineer]

Oh, Bradley. Now I remember.

[Oceander]

You know Obama will do that.

[txradioguy]

You know Obama will do that.

As sure as the sun comes up tomorrow.

And just to give America one last middle finger... he'll pardon Berghdal as well.