奧巴馬爲泄露軍事文件的曼寧減刑

President Barack Obama has commuted the prison sentence of former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of military documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She now will be freed in May.

She is aMong 209 prison commutations and 64 pardons Obama issued Tuesday as his presidency draws to a close. Most of the others were serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.

Chelsea Manning was formerly Bradley Manning when he handed over more than 700,000 classified U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks. They included battlefield reports from Afghanistan and Iraq, and State Department cables.

Government prosecutors argued that Manning's actions could have endangered the lives of U.S. servicemen and women.

The defense argued that Manning wanted to expose what they called the truth about U.S. military involvement, and that most of the information was worthless to anyone wanting to harm U.S. interests.

Manning admitted leaking the documents and said it was done, in part, because of his gender identity confusion.

He declared himself to be a woman after his sentencing, changed his named from Bradley to Chelsea, and said he plans to undergo a sex change surgery.奧巴馬總統爲前美國陸軍情報分析員切爾西·曼寧減刑。曼寧向維基揭祕網站泄露了幾十萬分軍事文件，因而在2013年被判監禁35年。減刑後她將在5月獲釋。

奧巴馬星期二在總統任期即將結束之際宣佈對209人減刑，並對64人實行赦免。曼寧是獲得總統寬大處理者之一。其他人多數因非暴力毒品犯罪而在服刑。

切爾西·曼寧把70多萬份美軍保密文件交給了維基揭祕，當時他還是男性，名叫布萊德利·曼寧。這些文件包括來自阿富汗和伊拉克的戰地報告和美國國務院的祕電。

政府檢察官稱，曼寧的行爲有可能把美國男女軍人的生命置於險境。

辯方則稱，曼寧希望揭發他們所說的有關美國軍事介入的真相，其中多數信息對那些想要傷害美國利益的人來說沒有任何價值。

曼寧承認泄露了文件，而且說，泄密的部分原因是對自己的性別身份感到困惑。

被判刑後，他宣佈自己是女性，把名字從布萊德利改爲切爾西，並說計劃做變性手術。