7. The Ongoing Sagas of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden NSA leaker Edward Snowden, continued to grab global headlines when his application for political asylum was approved and he has left a Moscow airport.
Snowden has legal status in Russia for one year. As for WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, this other news-making leaker apparently intends to begin hormone therapy for gender reassignment and live the rest of his life as a “woman”. Manning wants to be referred to as Chelsea — not Bradley — according to a statement.
His announcement came a day after a military judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of U.S. military and diplomatic documents. Manning, 25, was convicted in July of stealing 750,000 pages of classified documents and videos and disseminating them to WikiLeaks.
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