Sentenced manning, then known as bradley manning, to a record 35 years for providing hundreds of thousands of government documents to wikileaks. Details on all of that from our justice correspondent pamela brown. Reporter tonight in a shocking move president obama is allowing Chelsea Manning, the army private convicted of stealing and leaking hundreds of thousands of documents and videos, to be a free woman in may. For the president especially the president whos made so much recently about the danger that wikileaks has posed to our national security, to commute private mannings sentence is disappointing. Reporter in 2009, then known as bradley manning, the 22yearold stole hundreds of thousands of classified and sensitive military files as an Army Intelligence analyst. Manning then gave them to the website wikileaks, which published them, causing a mass ive Ripple Effect in the United States and around the world and putting wikileaks on the map for future leakers such as Edward Snowden.