Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is a former U.S. Armyprivate first class and intelligence analyst who leaked over 700,000 pages of classified and sensitive government documents—primarily concerning U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as diplomatic cables—to WikiLeaks between November 2009 and May 2010.[1][2] Arrested in Iraq in May 2010 following a tip from a hacker, Manning faced charges including aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published to the enemy, and multiple violations of the Espionage Act; she pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specifications but was convicted by general court-martial on 20 counts in July 2013 and sentenced to 35 years' confinement.[3] President Barack Obama commuted her sentence to time served in January 2017—after she had spent nearly seven years in pretrial confinement and prison, including periods of