Chelsea Manning is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistle-Blowing

Summary: Ever since Chelsea Manningwas revealed as the whistleblower of one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism was manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience: someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover thedark reality not only of that war but of the U.S.