WikiLeaks Informant Manning Is **w Officially Chelsea

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WikiLeaks Informant Manning Is **w Officially Chelsea
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A judge has granted a request from WikiLeaks (http://mashable.com/category/wikileaks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)' most famous informant, the soldier formerly k**wn as Bradley Edward Manning, to have her name formally changed to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.

The Leavenworth County District Judge David King allowed the name change in a one-minute long hearing, according to the Associated Press (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-mull-chelsea-manning-change-request-23434524). Manning will **w officially be k**wn as Chelsea.

See also: Julian Assange at SXSW: All Talk but **thing to Say (http://mashable.com/2014/03/08/julian-assange-sxsw/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Manning formally requested (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/chelsea-manning-name-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) her name to be changed last month, but she an**unced (http://mashable.com/2013/08/22/bradley-manning-chelsea-female/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that she is female and wanted to be k**wn as Chelsea last year, after being sentenced (http://mashable.com/2013/08/21/manning-sentenced-35-years/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to spend 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/chelsea-manning-official/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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