Chelsea Manning's leaks did not damage US national security, says government report
In 2010 Wikileaks published classified documents provided by US solider Chelsea Manning that were said to be damaging to national security, but a newly-public report claims otherwise despite assessments about danger to civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ms Manning was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for leaking the nearly 750,000 pages, but her sentence was commuted in May 2016 by President Obama.
The secret June 2011 Defence Department report, obtained by Buzzfeed through a Freedom of Information Act request, determined "with high confidence that disclosure of the Iraq data set will have no direct personal impact on current and former US leadership in Iraq".
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