WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange, released thousands of U.S. documents provided by Chelsea Manning, relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan including field reports on civilian casualties and the treatment of prisoners, These "war logs" were made available to the public after by WikiLeaks and also released by some News organizations like The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and The New York Times.
Chelsea Manning was arrested in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. She was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison. President Obama commuted her sentence in January 2017, leading to her release in May 2017 after serving nearly seven years.
Assange agreed to a plea deal on June 25, 2024 in which he pleaded guilty in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents in return for a sentence of time served. Following the hearing Assange flew to Australia.
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