President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning now lives as a woman and goes by the name of Chelsea. (AP)

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle Tuesday in Fort Meade, Md., after he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning now lives as a woman and goes by the name of Chelsea. Manning is seeking a presidential pardon for sending reams of classified information to WikiLeaks. (U.S. Army/The Associated Press)

President Barack Obama is commuting the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents.

The White House says Manning is one of 209 inmates whose sentences Obama is shortening.

Manning is more than six years into a 35-year sentence for leaking classified government and military documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Her sentence is now set to expire May 17.

She was known as Bradley Manning at the time of her 2010 arrest and attempted suicide twice last year.

Obama is also pardoning 64 people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright, who was charged with making false statements during a probe into disclosure of classified information.

Most of the other people receiving commutations were serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.

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