In one of his last moves in office, President Obama has commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army private who leaked a massive trove of military secrets to WikiLeaks.
The former intelligence analyst's prison sentence has been shortened to expire on May 17, 2017, according to a statement from the White House.
Her lawyers at the ACLU expressed relief after the decision, saying that Manning has already served more time behind bars than any other whistleblower in U.S. history, and under difficult conditions.
Also at the BBC and the New York Times.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:57PM
They gave him the nobel peace prize as an incentive.
They intended to remind him to not be a warmonger like his predecessor.
On one hand it worked - no new occupations.
On the other hand, he kinda found a loophole and went balls deep with drones.
And a case can be made that maybe we should have intervened in Syria - the million+ people displaced have experienced severe misery and death and destabilized europe. Refusing to support the rebels forced them into the hands of radicals like ISIS, now the rebels lost but ISIS still gained influence.