Lamo indirectly informed the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, and Manning was arrested in May that same year. In early 2010, she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks and confided this to Adrian Lamo, an online acquaintance. Īssigned in 2009 to an Army unit in Iraq as an intelligence analyst, Manning had access to classified databases. She also expressed a desire to begin hormone replacement therapy. A trans woman, Manning stated in 2013 that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.
She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower.
