Chelsea Manning, who gave trove of U.S. secrets to Wikileaks, to leave prison

Active discussion on NY Times version of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355739

The latest episode of the Intercepted podcast is relevant: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/intercepted-podcast-jame...

They have some audio snippets from the trial itself on that podcast.

Thanks Obama (genuinely).

I really wish he would have pardoned Snowden in addition to this.

My understanding is that doing so wasn't technically possible, since Snowden has yet to stand trial and thus has yet to be found guilty of any crime (thus leaving nothing for the President to pardon).

True, but the president actually has the ability to grant pre-indictment pardons based on a supreme court ruling from 1867.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...

"It extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment."

For those interested what information Chelsea (former Bradley) Manning released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrgTmrfCkc (newsbud)