30-year-old Chelsea manning, now a transgender woman and former soldier, known disclosure of a huge number of secret documents, plans to run for the Senate from Maryland.
In 2010, Bradley Edward manning (so named Chelsea at birth), working as a specialist on intelligence analysis, gave the nonprofit organization WikiLeaks 700 thousands of secret government documents. When the identity of the informant was disclosed, he was taken into custody.
In 2013 the court decided to deprive manning of freedom for 35 years is the longest term, which in the United States to be sentenced for disclosure of state secrets. The next day, after sentencing the convict said that since childhood, considered myself a girl, and in 2015, while in prison, received permission for a course of hormone therapy for a sex change.
7 years after the arrest of convicted were released, President Barack Obama 2 days before the transfer of authority to the newly elected President Donald Trump has signed a decree on pardon.
The case of Chelsea manning has become a truly controversial and was discussed in all the media. Some supported the girl, considering her a hero in the struggle with the state secret. Others, including President trump blamed for the disclosure of documents about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, of treason.
After his release from prison, Chelsea posed in a swimsuit for Vogue, shared their beauty secrets in an article for Yahoo!, became the author of a column in The Guardian on transgender rights and government transparency.
Manning will face incumbent democratic Senator Ben Cardin, who has twice represented the state and is considered the favorite in the presidential race.
