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Obama Will Free Chelsea Manning

The imprisoned army analyst will walk out of Fort Leavenworth as a free woman in May.

Chelsea Manning, the imprisoned army analyst, will walk out of Fort Leavenworth as a free woman in five months instead of in 2045. President Obama announced his drastic commutation on her 35-year sentence Tuesday.

Manning was convicted in 2010 of espionage, among other charges, for leaking thousands of sensitive military documents to Wikileaks.

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