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Chelsea Manning is running for the US Senate in Maryland

Chelsea Manning is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin for his seat in Maryland.

  • Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private best known for leaking the largest batch of classified government documents in US history, filed papers this week to run for the US Senate in Maryland.
  • She will challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in his party's primary later this year.
  • President Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence in January 2017.

Chelsea Manning, the former US Army Intelligence analyst who leaked classified government documents to the radical transparency site WikiLeaks, has filed to run as a democrat for the US Senate in Maryland, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

The move is a stunning turn for Manning, who just over a year ago was serving a 35-year prison sentence for her unauthorized disclosure of sensitive government documents in 2010. President Barack Obama commuted all but four months of the remainder of Manning's sentence. She was released from prison last May.

"I'm walking out of prison and I see, literally, a dystopian novel unfolding before my eyes," she shortly after her release. "That's how I feel when I walk in the American streets today."

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