Chelsea Manning

Also known as Chelsea E. Manning, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, Bradley Manning, Bradley Edward Manning

American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)

OverviewAI-generated

Chelsea Manning is an American and British computer scientist and activist. Born in 1987 in Oklahoma City, she served as a private first class in the United States Army and participated in the Iraq War. Manning identifies as a trans woman and is a member of the Democratic Party. Her occupations include work as an activist and computer scientist.

She has been convicted of espionage and contempt of court and was detained at the United States Disciplinary Barracks. Manning has received the Sam Adams Award and the EFF Award. She is the author of works including *It's Not the Freaking Wheat America!*, *Léeme. txt / README. txt*, and *Becoming Resemblance*. She speaks and writes in English and identifies as an atheist.

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Works: 8

Top works

It's Not the Freaking Wheat America!
Léeme. txt / README. txt
README.txt
README.txt – Meine Geschichte
Becoming Resemblance

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Film & TV

Crescent, Oklahoma, United States

Known for

XY Chelsea — Self2019
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly — Self2019
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks — Self - WikiLeaks Source (archive footage)2013
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State — Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)2013
Markus Lanz2008
The View — Self - Guest1997
The Daily Show — Self1996

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Edward
Family name: Manning
Gender: trans woman
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Oklahoma City
Political party: Democratic Party (United States)
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: atheism
Conflict: Iraq War
Military branch: United States Army
Military rank: Private first class
Image: Bradley Manning US Army.jpg
Convicted of: contempt of court
Significant event: feminizing surgery

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date of birth: 1987-12-17
Commons category: Chelsea Manning
name in native language: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
writing language: English language
social media followers: 434933
Commons Creator page: Chelsea Manning
sexual orientation: non-heterosexuality
birth name: Bradley Edward Manning
start of work period: 2007-00-00
end of work period: 2013-00-00
number of viewers/listeners: 382478

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Encyclopedic overview

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. 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. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017, when President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. A trans woman, Manning said in 2013 that she had had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.

Assigned in 2009 as an intelligence analyst to an Army unit in Iraq, Manning had access to classified databases. In early 2010, she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks and confided this to Adrian Lamo, an online acquaintance. Lamo indirectly informed the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, and Manning was arrested in May 2010. The material included videos of the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan; 251,287 US diplomatic cables; and 482,832 Army reports that came to be known as the "Iraq War Logs" and "Afghan War Diary". WikiLeaks and its media partners published the material between April 2010 and April 2011.

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