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President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence
President Obama has commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of leaking a trove of military information to WikiLeaks in 2010.
Manning, who came out as transgender in 2013, has served seven of her 35-year sentence. She will be freed in May, instead of 2045.
Guests:
Charles "Cully" Stimson, Manager of the National Security Law Program and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation
Sarah St.Vincent, a researcher and advocate on national security, surveillance, and domestic law enforcement for the US Program at Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit organization