Obama wants to release Chelsea Manning

washington - Barack Obama Chelsea Manning, who is serving a prison sentence of 35 years for leaking military secrets, put on the list of candidates for release. That said a representative of Justice against NBC News. A final decision can be taken about the short term.

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.

The day after the conviction for treason in 2013 was Manning, who expressed regret for the court martial but was punished much heavier than other whistleblowers, known as a woman they want to continue living. Recently she tried to commit suicide twice. To enforce permission for a sex change operation from male to female Manning went on hunger strike.