Obama let Manning previously free

washington - Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, who is serving a prison sentence of 35 years for leaking military secrets. Manning is released on May 17, 2017.

Manning was in 2010, when she was called Bradley and a soldier in the US Army, was arrested by the military police for a stolen by playing defense material to WikiLeaks. It among many more went to video footage of a US helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007.