President Obama on Tuesday moved to commute the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking military and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks in 2010. According to The New York Times, Manning will go free in five months, on May 17, rather than in 2045, as set forth by her sentencing. Manning has been jailed for nearly seven years and was sentenced to 35 years in prison—the longest sentence ever for a U.S. leak conviction. She twice attempted suicide last year amid her push for the Department of Defense to pay for treatment of her gender dysphoria, including sex-reassignment surgery.
