President Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the
former Army intelligence officer, who is serving a 35 years for giving
classified information to Wikileaks.
The decision, made in the last days of his presidency, means that Manning can be freed May 17, seven years into her sentence.
More than 117,000 people signed a petition
asking Obama to cut short the sentence. Fugitive leaker Edward Snowden
said in a tweet that if Obama could only free one person, it should be
Manning.
Manning's supporters were buoyed by indications
that her petition was being taken seriously. At a White House briefing
last week, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said there was a "stark
difference" between Manning's crime and Snowden's actions, with
Snowden's being "far more serious and far more dangerous."
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