Looks like he’s going to be able to rebuild his life after all – in about 35 years:
#BREAKING: Military judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking classified documents to #WikiLeaks
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 21, 2013
FOX NEWS – The Army soldier who leaked more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and diplomatic cables while working as an intelligence analyst was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks, faced up to 90 years in prison.
Prosecutors asked for at least a 60-year prison term. Capt. Joe Morrow said in his closing argument Monday that a long prison sentence would dissuade other soldiers from following in Manning’s footsteps.
The defense has suggested a prison term of no more than 25 years, so that Manning, 25, could rebuild his life. Defense attorney David Coombs asked for a sentence that “doesn’t rob him of his youth.”
A small group of people gathered Wednesday morning outside the gates of Fort Meade, near Baltimore, holding posters that read “Free Bradley Manning.”