| farah ashraf |
An American soldier who worked as an intelligence analyst in the US Army, and was convicted of several crimes under the US Espionage Act, in addition to several other crimes, after she leaked the largest amount of secret documents in the history of the United States at that time. She was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison, and was discharged. She could be released on parole after serving a third of her prison term, and if she received a certificate of good behavior, she could be released after eight years. In 2009, Manning joined a military unit near Baghdad, Iraq, where she had access to databases used by the U.S. government to store classified information. She was arrested in May 2010 after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker, told the FBI that Manning had said in online conversations that she had downloaded material from the databases and passed it to the leaking organization WikiLeaks. The material included videos of the July 12, 2007, bombing of Baghdad, the airstrike on Granai in Afghanistan, 250,000 documents of classified U.S. diplomatic correspondence, and 500,000 war reports. The leaks were known as the Iraq War Logs and the Afghanistan War Logs, most of which were released by WikiLeaks or media partners between April and November 2010. She appeared in the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks in 2010.
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