Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

paxamericana:

WASHINGTON
— President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison
sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of
an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic
activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made
WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.

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. She has been jailed for nearly seven years,
and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed
in the United States for a leak conviction.

Now,
under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the White House
on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed in five months, on May 17 of
this year, rather than in 2045.

Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence