The Daily Dose

President Obama just effectively freed Chelsea Manning from the 32 remaining years in her jail sentence, according to the New York Times. While it’s not a presidential pardon, the commutation of Manning’s sentence will see her go free in just five months. After leaking more than 700,000 documents that exposed American military and diplomatic actions worldwide, Manning became a polarizing figure. The document dump was ultimately published by Wikileaks and included atrocities such as the 2007 video later dubbed “Collateral Murder” that saw US military open fire on innocent civilians — including a journalist from Reuters. The 30mm cannon was seen firing…

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