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Heres a look at WikiLeaks and the trial of Chelsea Manning.

Facts: WikiLeaks is an organization that facilitates the anonymous leaking of secret information through its website.

It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, activist, computer programmer and hacker.

Chelsea Manning, a transgender woman and former Army intelligence analyst who provided WikiLeaks with classified documents, was convicted of violating the Espionage Act in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Her sentence was later commuted by President Barack Obama.

Timeline: December 2007 WikiLeaks posts the US Army manual for soldiers dealing with prisoners at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay.

March 2008 WikiLeaks posts internal documents from the Church of Scientology.

September 2008 WikiLeaks posts emails from the Yahoo email account of Sarah Palin.

November 2008 WikiLeaks posts a list of names and addresses of people it claims belong to the far-right British National Party.

November 2009 WikiLeaks posts what it claims are 500,000 messages sent during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

April 5, 2010 A classified military video is posted by WikiLeaks. It shows a US Apache helicopter firing on and killing two journalists and a number of Iraqi civilians in 2007. The military claimed that the helicopter crew believed the targets were armed insurgents, not civilians.

May 2010 The US military detains Manning for allegedly leaking US combat video, including the US helicopter gunship attack posted on WikiLeaks, and classified State Department records. Manning was turned in by Adrian Lamo, a former hacker, who Manning confided in about leaking the classified records.

July 6, 2010 The military announces it has charged Manning with violating army regulations by transferring classified information to a personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system and of violating federal laws of governing the handling of classified information.

July 25, 2010 WikiLeaks posts more than 90,000 classified documents relating to the Afghanistan war in what has been called the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. The documents are divided into more than 100 categories and touch on everything from the hunt for Osama bin Laden to Afghan civilian deaths resulting from US military actions.

October 22, 2010 WikiLeaks publishes nearly 400,000 classified military documents from the Iraq War, providing a new picture of how many Iraqi civilians have been killed, the role that Iran has played in supporting Iraqi militants and many accounts of abuse by Iraqs army and police.

November 28, 2010 WikiLeaks begins publishing approximately 250,000 leaked State Department cables dating back to 1966. The site says the documents will be released in stages over the next few months.

November 28, 2010 The WikiLeaks website suffers an attack designed to make it unavailable to users. A Twitter user called Jester claims responsibility for the attack.

December 1, 2010 Amazon removes WikiLeaks from its servers.

April 24, 2011 Nearly 800 classified US military documents obtained by WikiLeaks reveal details about the alleged terrorist activities of al Qaeda operatives captured and housed in Guantanamo Bay.

September 2, 2011 WikiLeaks releases its archive of more than 250,000 unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables.

October 24, 2011 WikiLeaks announces that it is temporarily halting publication to aggressively fundraise. Assange states that a financial blockade by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union has cut off 95% of WikiLeaks revenue.

December 16, 2011 Mannings Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing that will determine whether enough evidence exists to merit a court-martial, begins.

February 23, 2012 Manning is formally charged with aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, transmitting national defense information and theft of public property or records.

February 26, 2012 WikiLeaks begins releasing what it says are five million emails from the private intelligence company, Stratfor, starting with a company glossary that features unflattering descriptions of US government agencies. The authenticity of the documents could not be independently confirmed.

July 5, 2012 WikiLeaks begins publishing more than 2.4 million emails from Syrian politicians, government ministries and companies dating back to 2006.

February 28, 2013 Manning pleads guilty to some of the 22 charges against him, but not the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carries a life sentence.

June 3, 2013 Mannings court-martial begins.

July 30, 2013 Manning is acquitted of aiding the enemy, but found guilty on 20 other counts, including violations of the Espionage Act.

August 21, 2013 A military judge sentences Manning to 35 years in prison.

August 22, 2013 Through a statement read on NBCs Today show, Manning announces he wants to live life as a woman and wants to known by his new name, Chelsea Manning.

April 23, 2014 A Kansas judge grants Mannings request for a formal name change from Bradley to Chelsea.

July 22, 2016 WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Committee staffers. The emails appear to show the committee favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the US presidential primary.

October 7, 2016 More than 2,000 hacked emails from Clintons campaign chairman, John Podesta are published by WikiLeaks. The emails include possible excerpts from closed-door speeches. During the Democratic primary, Sanders asked Clinton to release the transcripts from her speeches but she declined. WikiLeaks claims that it has more than 50,000 of Podestas emails and pledges to continue releasing batches of documents during the weeks leading up to the election.

January 3, 2017 During an interviews on the Fox News Network, Assange says that Russia did not give WikiLeaks hacked emails.

January 12, 2017 WikiLeaks tweets that Asssange will agree to be extradited to the US if Obama grants clemency to Manning.

January 17, 2017 Obama commutes Mannings sentence, setting the stage for her to be released on May 17.

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