Chelsea Manning – Bio, Net Worth, Height

Chelsea Manning – Bio, Net Worth, Height

origin
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst. She leaked thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks and was convicted of violating the Espionage Act. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama and she was released in May 2017. Manning was born Bradley Edward Manning on December 17, 1987 in Crescent, Oklahoma. She announced her gender transition in 2013. Her parents are Susan Fox and Brian Manning. She has an older sister named Casey. Manning attended Crescent High School in Crescent City, Oklahoma. After the family moved to Haverford West, Wales, she continued her education at VC School, Tasker Millward. In 2005, at the age of 17, she returned to the United States.

Profession
Manning joined the U.S. Army in late 2007. She completed basic training in 2008. After completing the MOS program, she received the Army Service Medal and the Defense Service Medal. Manning was assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, New York. In 2009, she was sent to Iraq as an intelligence analyst. Her title gives her access to classified databases and top-secret documents.

Manning leaked classified documents from WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in early 2010. She revealed this to Adrian Lamo, who quickly alerted the U.S. Army counterintelligence. She was arrested in May 2010. WiliLeaks began publishing the above-mentioned documents in February 2010. These include videos and Army reports (“War Diary in Iraq” and “War Diary in Afghanistan”). Manning spent nearly three years in pretrial detention. She was tried and found guilty of multiple charges, including espionage and theft. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the crime. In January 2017, President Barack Obama commuted the remainder of Manning’s sentence. She was released from prison in May 2017.

In 2018, Manning ran against incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin for the Democratic nomination for the Maryland Senate seat. She came in second with 5.7% of the total vote, behind Ben Cardin. Manning was subpoenaed to testify in February 2019 in the U.S. government’s case against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. She refused to testify and was held in contempt of court and jailed in March 2019.

personal
Chelsea Manning is 5-foot-2 and of Welsh descent. She is a trans woman. She was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2013. Manning dated musician Taylor Watkins for a while.

Photo by Tim Travers Hawkins [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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