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In 2010, a US military analyst based in Iraq leaked 750,000 classified documents to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, revealing to the public that the US army, the CIA, Iraqi and Afghan forces had committed human rights violations. To some, Chelsea Manning, was heroic to expose this information, which was in the public interest; others thought it was treachery that had endangered American lives overseas. Chelsea, then known as Bradley, was sentenced to 35 years in military prison, but after spending nearly seven years behind bars, her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017. Chelsea is now an activist and data security expert, and while she was in London promoting a new privacy VPN she's been developing with the company Nym, she spoke to Weekend's Rebecca Kesby. (Photo: Chelsea Manning appears on the Â鶹Éç's Hardtalk programme on 23 November 2022)