Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case


August 21, 2013 at 1:45p.m.

Manning sentenced to 35 years in WikiLeaks case

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in one of the nation’s biggest leak cases since the Pentagon Papers more than a generation ago. Flanked by his lawyers, Manning, 25, stood at attention in his dress uniform and showed no reaction as military judge Col. Denise Lind announced the punishment without explanation during a brief hearing.