Original upload date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:35:20 GMT
Chelsea Manning is a former US Army intelligence analyst, and was sent to Iraq in 2009 where she had access to classified information that was described as deeply troubling, including videos that show
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ed unarmed Iraqi civilians being shot at and killed.
She also gained access to war logs about the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, as well as private cables from the US State Department.
As a whistleblower, Manning passed much of the information onto the press, and the fallout from those revelations provoked international outrage. Manning was later arrested and in 2013, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information, but was granted clemency by Barack Obama in 2017.
