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- Five years ago this week, U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was arrested
in Kuwait and charged with leaking classified information. Weeks later,
WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of internal logs from the war in
Afghanistan. It was one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. Major
articles ran in The New York Times, Guardian, Der Spiegel and other outlets.
Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley, and Julian Assange soon became household
names. While Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail, Assange has been living
for the past three years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has
political asylum. Assange faces investigations in both Sweden and the United
States. Here in the United States, a secret grand jury is investigating
WikiLeaks for its role in publishing leaked Afghan and Iraq war logs and State
Department cables.
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